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2016 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 136K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 493rd 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 Independence 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 | January 18, 2016 07:00 | January 18, 2016 21:15 | 14h 15m | 11,463 | 76K |
| 2 | June 11, 2016 20:45 | June 12, 2016 07:30 | 10h 45m | 5,958 | 2,900 |
| 3 | March 30, 2016 18:00 | March 31, 2016 04:15 | 10h 15m | 4,749 | 6,750 |
| 4 | May 24, 2016 10:45 | May 24, 2016 16:00 | 5h 15m | 4,079 | 1,203 |
| 5 | March 27, 2016 18:45 | March 27, 2016 22:15 | 3h 30m | 1,817 | 4,713 |
| 6 | March 14, 2016 02:00 | March 14, 2016 06:15 | 4h 15m | 1,510 | 413 |
| 7 | November 23, 2016 05:15 | November 23, 2016 08:15 | 3h | 1,450 | 1,835 |
| 8 | December 26, 2016 19:30 | December 26, 2016 20:30 | 1h | 1,448 | 1,448 |
| 9 | January 22, 2016 10:00 | January 22, 2016 20:45 | 10h 45m | 1,185 | 7,397 |
| 10 | May 30, 2016 19:00 | May 31, 2016 04:00 | 9h | 1,131 | 2,681 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 45 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Independence 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 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 2.90 | 2.8 hrs | 2.50 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Farmers Electric Coop Corp - (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 ÷ 19,306 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. Independence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Independence 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/independence-county