Power Outages in Craighead County, AR
No live outage feed is available for Craighead County, AR yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.2 hours.
Craighead County, AR is served by local tracked utilities.
Craighead County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Craighead County has been under 14 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 19, 2026.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×6
- Heat Advisory ×4
- Dense Fog Advisory ×1
- Flood Advisory ×1
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Craighead County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Jonesborono active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Craighead County went about 3.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 5,528 customers.
Worst year here was 2025 (peak 5,223 customers out) · decade average 1.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 252 | 2,891 | 0.7 |
| 2016 | 217 | 1,692 | 0.6 |
| 2017 | 196 | 4,489 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 219 | 1,675 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 240 | 1,686 | 0.7 |
| 2020 | 485 | 2,219 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 494 | 5,528 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 677 | 2,270 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 583 | 5,524 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 569 | 2,267 | 0.7 |
| 2025 | 658 | 5,223 | 3.2 |
Very High ice storms exposure · 1.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Craighead County: FAQ
- How often does Craighead County, AR lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Craighead County, AR logged 658 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Craighead County, AR?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 5,528 customers without power, beginning December 11, 2021 and lasting about 3d 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Craighead County, AR right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Craighead County, AR. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Jonesboro. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Craighead County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Craighead County.
72401, 72404, 72405, 72411, 72414, 72416, 72417, 72419, 72421, 72427, 72437, 72447, 72467
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/05031 and /api/v1/counties/05031/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Arkansas customers).