City of Hope, AR
Power reliability at City of Hope
City of Hope customers in Arkansas rarely lose power at all: 0.9 interruptions last year, adding up to just 51 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 89% less outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single City of Hope outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 58 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for City of Hope
Most City of Hope customers keep power almost all year. Serving 7,009 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Hope filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arkansas territory, serving 7,009 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Arkansas is covered too: see Arkansas's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.