City of North Little Rock, AR
How often City of North Little Rock goes out
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: City of North Little Rock's Arkansas customers saw 1.4 interruptions and 6.6 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 14% less outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of North Little Rock looks like
Outages here average 4.9 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of North Little Rock
Serving 40,910 customers here, Outages at City of North Little Rock run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
The source behind this number
City of North Little Rock filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arkansas territory, serving 40,910 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Arkansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Arkansas's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.