Stone County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stone County, Arkansas had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.93 times the US outage time per person and 2.38 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 12 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Mayhardest months

January and May made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 25, 2023, reached 8,297 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	31,082	25	1
2016	79,172	18	0
2017	131,940	22	3
2018	26,799	18	1
2019	25,738	20	0
2020	14,836	18	0
2021	24,304	18	1
2022	71,726	33	3
2023	417,549	31	5

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jan 25, 2023	73.0	8,297	264,840
Jan 25, 2023	22.0	8,352	106,722
May 4, 2017	9.5	7,814	71,062
Jan 18, 2016	7.8	7,765	53,468
Mar 1, 2017	33.8	3,954	37,992

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.