Empire District Electric Co, AR
Empire District Electric Co's outage record
Empire District Electric Co customers in Arkansas had 0.9 interruptions last year, 3.4 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 56% less outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 3.8 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Empire District Electric Co
Serving 5,329 customers here, Empire District Electric Co customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Empire District Electric Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arkansas territory, serving 5,329 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Arkansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Arkansas's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.