County annual report · FIPS 05061
2016 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 876th 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 Howard 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 | June 25, 2016 08:15 | June 25, 2016 23:30 | 15h 15m | 1,476 | 5,696 |
| 2 | July 14, 2016 22:15 | July 17, 2016 04:30 | 2d 6h | 1,279 | 6,680 |
| 3 | April 18, 2016 18:15 | April 18, 2016 19:00 | 45m | 965 | 435 |
| 4 | September 1, 2016 21:15 | September 1, 2016 23:00 | 1h 45m | 656 | 173 |
| 5 | June 22, 2016 03:15 | June 22, 2016 06:00 | 2h 45m | 610 | 1,526 |
| 6 | October 30, 2016 09:45 | October 30, 2016 15:15 | 5h 30m | 542 | 1,544 |
| 7 | July 23, 2016 20:15 | July 23, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 349 | 597 |
| 8 | February 15, 2016 07:45 | February 15, 2016 08:30 | 45m | 140 | 105 |
| 9 | April 30, 2016 01:30 | May 1, 2016 18:30 | 1d 17h | 134 | 2,353 |
| 10 | July 19, 2016 00:00 | July 19, 2016 01:30 | 1h 30m | 118 | 148 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 10 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Howard 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 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.58 | 1.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| South Central Ark El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,087 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county