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2017 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 994th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hempstead County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 29, 2017 22:30 | May 1, 2017 19:30 | 1d 21h | 1,050 | 12K |
| 2 | December 22, 2017 17:15 | December 22, 2017 22:00 | 4h 45m | 1,030 | 2,060 |
| 3 | September 9, 2017 15:15 | September 9, 2017 17:45 | 2h 30m | 601 | 1,267 |
| 4 | May 28, 2017 07:30 | May 29, 2017 03:00 | 19h 30m | 555 | 4,275 |
| 5 | July 1, 2017 21:00 | July 2, 2017 04:00 | 7h | 527 | 2,232 |
| 6 | February 24, 2017 02:00 | February 24, 2017 07:00 | 5h | 513 | 2,526 |
| 7 | August 16, 2017 11:15 | August 16, 2017 15:30 | 4h 15m | 512 | 2,002 |
| 8 | May 2, 2017 20:45 | May 15, 2017 11:30 | 12d 14h | 459 | 3,187 |
| 9 | August 6, 2017 14:45 | August 7, 2017 00:15 | 9h 30m | 448 | 1,302 |
| 10 | October 26, 2017 09:00 | October 26, 2017 11:45 | 2h 45m | 443 | 1,218 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 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 Hempstead County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.4 hrs | 2.19 | 3.6 hrs | 1.56 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2017 | 10.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.43 | 2.0 hrs | 1.04 |
| City of Hope - (AR) | 2017 | 33 min | 1.38 | 16 min | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/arkansas/hempstead-county