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2015 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 5,601 customer-hours (Arkansas average 3.7 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 2072nd 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 Polk 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 | November 5, 2015 23:15 | November 6, 2015 01:45 | 2h 30m | 454 | 1,018 |
| 2 | November 17, 2015 14:00 | November 17, 2015 17:00 | 3h | 225 | 499 |
| 3 | December 13, 2015 03:00 | December 13, 2015 07:15 | 4h 15m | 218 | 820 |
| 4 | January 25, 2015 13:15 | January 25, 2015 13:30 | 15m | 194 | 49 |
| 5 | December 20, 2015 14:00 | December 20, 2015 16:00 | 2h | 189 | 291 |
| 6 | May 25, 2015 23:30 | May 27, 2015 03:45 | 1d 4h | 177 | 886 |
| 7 | February 1, 2015 09:15 | February 1, 2015 12:45 | 3h 30m | 125 | 407 |
| 8 | July 4, 2015 12:15 | July 4, 2015 14:30 | 2h 15m | 123 | 155 |
| 9 | January 8, 2015 02:45 | January 8, 2015 03:45 | 1h | 118 | 33 |
| 10 | November 28, 2015 19:30 | November 28, 2015 23:15 | 3h 45m | 100 | 374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 10 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,572 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county