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2016 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 9,882 customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 1860th 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 Polk 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 14, 2016 17:00 | March 16, 2016 19:15 | 2d 2h | 1,382 | 1,636 |
| 2 | July 14, 2016 21:30 | July 15, 2016 04:30 | 7h | 870 | 1,333 |
| 3 | December 26, 2016 19:30 | December 26, 2016 22:30 | 3h | 466 | 1,397 |
| 4 | May 25, 2016 11:15 | May 25, 2016 14:15 | 3h | 225 | 376 |
| 5 | February 8, 2016 12:30 | February 8, 2016 16:15 | 3h 45m | 224 | 643 |
| 6 | February 21, 2016 00:30 | February 21, 2016 05:00 | 4h 30m | 224 | 639 |
| 7 | May 12, 2016 10:30 | May 12, 2016 13:00 | 2h 30m | 166 | 167 |
| 8 | April 28, 2016 16:30 | April 28, 2016 17:15 | 45m | 79 | 59 |
| 9 | January 2, 2016 14:15 | January 2, 2016 15:45 | 1h 30m | 71 | 107 |
| 10 | January 29, 2016 16:00 | January 29, 2016 18:15 | 2h 15m | 71 | 143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,572 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county