White County, Arkansas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

White County, Arkansas had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.71 times the US outage time per person and 0.58 times the Arkansas rate. It ranks 60 of 72 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 29% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2023, reached 8,036 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.0 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	103,920	63	0
2016	83,450	67	1
2017	175,773	63	3
2018	113,858	62	3
2019	45,188	56	0
2020	156,773	59	2
2021	107,208	53	3
2022	229,344	68	6
2023	220,234	58	3

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
Jun 18, 2023	40.0	8,036	109,539
Apr 30, 2017	43.0	4,704	77,756
Feb 24, 2022	45.8	2,468	56,662
Jul 30, 2020	5.5	21,460	45,765
Nov 5, 2022	37.0	3,615	44,599

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.