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2015 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 13.6 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Arkansas average 3.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 187th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 11, 2015 03:45 | May 14, 2015 01:45 | 2d 22h | 2,137 | 69K |
| 2 | March 28, 2015 14:30 | March 28, 2015 17:30 | 3h | 1,477 | 4,395 |
| 3 | June 22, 2015 00:15 | June 22, 2015 15:30 | 15h 15m | 1,327 | 2,775 |
| 4 | May 15, 2015 08:30 | May 15, 2015 10:45 | 2h 15m | 841 | 1,892 |
| 5 | January 25, 2015 13:15 | January 25, 2015 13:30 | 15m | 519 | 130 |
| 6 | May 9, 2015 03:15 | May 9, 2015 06:15 | 3h | 513 | 218 |
| 7 | June 17, 2015 02:15 | June 17, 2015 02:45 | 30m | 130 | 65 |
| 8 | February 16, 2015 13:15 | February 16, 2015 18:45 | 5h 30m | 97 | 131 |
| 9 | October 9, 2015 12:00 | October 9, 2015 13:00 | 1h | 96 | 96 |
| 10 | September 16, 2015 11:00 | September 16, 2015 12:00 | 1h | 85 | 85 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 7 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Howard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2015 | 8.2 hrs | 2.35 | 4.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 2.02 | 4.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| South Central Ark El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rich Mountain Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Arkansas's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,087 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Howard County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard County, AR annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/arkansas/howard-county