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2015 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (Arkansas average 3.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 781st 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 Independence 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 | January 6, 2015 20:30 | January 6, 2015 22:00 | 1h 30m | 7,482 | 2,294 |
| 2 | January 3, 2015 08:00 | January 3, 2015 19:15 | 11h 15m | 2,465 | 745 |
| 3 | May 24, 2015 18:45 | May 25, 2015 03:45 | 9h | 2,105 | 1,321 |
| 4 | July 13, 2015 22:15 | July 14, 2015 07:30 | 9h 15m | 1,808 | 4,134 |
| 5 | February 21, 2015 09:00 | February 21, 2015 17:00 | 8h | 1,676 | 5,791 |
| 6 | November 6, 2015 22:45 | November 7, 2015 04:00 | 5h 15m | 1,625 | 6,916 |
| 7 | April 13, 2015 21:00 | April 14, 2015 05:30 | 8h 30m | 1,455 | 2,752 |
| 8 | June 8, 2015 15:15 | June 8, 2015 18:45 | 3h 30m | 1,404 | 613 |
| 9 | January 25, 2015 08:45 | January 25, 2015 16:00 | 7h 15m | 1,365 | 3,226 |
| 10 | December 26, 2015 11:30 | December 26, 2015 21:30 | 10h | 1,330 | 795 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 55 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Independence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Arkansas LLC | 2015 | 6.8 hrs | 2.25 | 4.7 hrs | 1.99 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2015 | 4.2 hrs | 2.57 | 2.9 hrs | 2.33 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Farmers Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,306 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. Independence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Independence 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/independence-county