County annual report · FIPS 05007
2016 Benton County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Benton County, AR went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 2185th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 19, 2016 10:30 | July 19, 2016 12:00 | 1h 30m | 2,612 | 671 |
| 2 | December 30, 2016 15:30 | December 30, 2016 15:45 | 15m | 874 | 219 |
| 3 | June 23, 2016 22:15 | June 23, 2016 22:45 | 30m | 845 | 422 |
| 4 | May 14, 2016 01:15 | May 14, 2016 03:00 | 1h 45m | 732 | 1,138 |
| 5 | April 27, 2016 06:15 | April 27, 2016 18:15 | 12h | 532 | 3,012 |
| 6 | July 15, 2016 11:00 | July 15, 2016 14:45 | 3h 45m | 496 | 900 |
| 7 | January 31, 2016 20:30 | January 31, 2016 23:30 | 3h | 376 | 1,043 |
| 8 | July 25, 2016 15:30 | July 25, 2016 17:00 | 1h 30m | 376 | 489 |
| 9 | July 9, 2016 05:30 | July 9, 2016 08:15 | 2h 45m | 351 | 739 |
| 10 | October 19, 2016 19:45 | October 19, 2016 21:15 | 1h 30m | 341 | 183 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | 2.07 | 3.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.68 | 2.2 hrs | 1.58 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 1.88 | 90 min | 1.47 |
| Ozarks Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.93 | 45 min | 0.67 |
| City of Siloam Springs - (AR) | 2016 | 23 min | 0.31 | 15 min | 0.27 |
| City of Bentonville - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 123,593 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, AR annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/arkansas/benton-county