County annual report · FIPS 05057
2016 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 1023rd 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 Hempstead 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 14, 2016 20:30 | July 18, 2016 18:00 | 3d 21h | 1,048 | 14K |
| 2 | December 7, 2016 18:45 | December 7, 2016 20:00 | 1h 15m | 829 | 691 |
| 3 | March 3, 2016 07:30 | March 3, 2016 18:30 | 11h | 762 | 609 |
| 4 | June 7, 2016 02:30 | June 7, 2016 05:30 | 3h | 760 | 284 |
| 5 | January 11, 2016 13:30 | January 11, 2016 15:15 | 1h 45m | 747 | 1,129 |
| 6 | August 25, 2016 19:30 | August 25, 2016 23:15 | 3h 45m | 726 | 916 |
| 7 | November 18, 2016 16:15 | November 18, 2016 20:30 | 4h 15m | 571 | 1,115 |
| 8 | June 25, 2016 08:15 | June 25, 2016 11:15 | 3h | 466 | 1,398 |
| 9 | March 16, 2016 12:00 | March 16, 2016 12:45 | 45m | 386 | 101 |
| 10 | January 16, 2016 00:00 | January 16, 2016 02:00 | 2h | 381 | 671 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 21 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 Hempstead 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | 2.07 | 3.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.58 | 1.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| City of Hope - (AR) | 2016 | 50 min | 0.47 | 11 min | 0.14 |
| South Central Ark El 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,330 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. Hempstead County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hempstead 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/hempstead-county