City of Siloam Springs, AR
Power reliability at City of Siloam Springs
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Siloam Springs's Arkansas customers went without power for only 43 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 91% less outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single City of Siloam Springs outage runs
At an average of 1.9 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Siloam Springs
Most City of Siloam Springs customers keep power almost all year. Serving 10,071 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 Siloam Springs filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arkansas territory, serving 10,071 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Arkansas is covered too: see Arkansas's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.