Union County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Union County, Arkansas had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.77 times the US outage time per person and 2.25 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 14 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

95 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 28, 2020, reached 7,303 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Arkansas counties

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	150,300	93	6
2016	393,398	87	7
2017	108,689	54	2
2018	128,088	65	3
2019	298,482	76	7
2020	688,502	64	7
2021	196,432	75	6
2022	107,357	80	4
2023	187,044	77	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
Aug 28, 2020	95.2	7,303	358,459
Jul 15, 2016	27.8	8,857	144,902
Apr 13, 2020	70.5	3,862	129,596
Jun 24, 2019	47.5	4,439	79,736
Jun 20, 2019	64.0	2,940	73,856

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.