County annual report · FIPS 05041
2016 Desha County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Desha County, AR went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 390th 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 Desha 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 | March 31, 2016 02:30 | April 1, 2016 01:30 | 23h | 3,038 | 4,128 |
| 2 | July 15, 2016 00:45 | July 17, 2016 02:00 | 2d 1h | 2,323 | 13K |
| 3 | March 18, 2016 04:45 | March 18, 2016 14:00 | 9h 15m | 2,046 | 9,981 |
| 4 | July 31, 2016 01:00 | July 31, 2016 10:00 | 9h | 1,693 | 3,755 |
| 5 | September 27, 2016 13:00 | September 27, 2016 14:15 | 1h 15m | 943 | 236 |
| 6 | July 19, 2016 03:15 | July 19, 2016 04:00 | 45m | 619 | 464 |
| 7 | June 24, 2016 13:45 | June 24, 2016 14:00 | 15m | 614 | 154 |
| 8 | April 10, 2016 12:45 | April 10, 2016 16:45 | 4h | 583 | 957 |
| 9 | March 19, 2016 06:30 | March 19, 2016 12:15 | 5h 45m | 572 | 1,459 |
| 10 | December 2, 2016 00:45 | December 2, 2016 15:00 | 14h 15m | 504 | 1,014 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 34 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Desha 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Arkansas LLC | 2016 | 9.5 hrs | 2.36 | 4.8 hrs | 1.96 |
| C & L Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,462 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. Desha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Desha 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/desha-county