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2016 Prairie County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Prairie County, AR went without power for an average of 12.9 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 259th 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 Prairie 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 1, 2016 14:30 | July 1, 2016 14:45 | 15m | 2,218 | 555 |
| 2 | July 23, 2016 20:45 | July 24, 2016 20:00 | 23h 15m | 2,051 | 4,563 |
| 3 | January 25, 2016 21:00 | February 22, 2016 18:45 | 27d 21h | 1,234 | 9,687 |
| 4 | April 10, 2016 06:00 | April 10, 2016 07:15 | 1h 15m | 1,230 | 1,308 |
| 5 | July 21, 2016 10:15 | July 22, 2016 16:30 | 1d 6h | 682 | 2,011 |
| 6 | June 1, 2016 21:15 | June 2, 2016 02:00 | 4h 45m | 658 | 3,119 |
| 7 | June 1, 2016 04:45 | June 1, 2016 08:00 | 3h 15m | 650 | 1,308 |
| 8 | October 27, 2016 13:15 | October 27, 2016 14:45 | 1h 30m | 614 | 921 |
| 9 | March 14, 2016 00:00 | March 15, 2016 01:15 | 1d 1h | 613 | 2,221 |
| 10 | July 30, 2016 22:30 | July 31, 2016 03:15 | 4h 45m | 468 | 820 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 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 Prairie 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 |
| Woodruff 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 ÷ 3,917 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. Prairie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prairie 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/prairie-county