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2017 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 139 customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2668th 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 Howard County, 2017
The 7 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 16, 2017 11:00 | January 16, 2017 13:00 | 2h | 51 | 102 |
| 2 | January 16, 2017 14:00 | January 16, 2017 15:15 | 1h 15m | 9 | 11 |
| 3 | January 22, 2017 06:30 | January 22, 2017 08:45 | 2h 15m | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | January 25, 2017 00:15 | January 25, 2017 01:00 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | January 7, 2017 09:30 | January 7, 2017 15:00 | 5h 30m | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | January 9, 2017 14:15 | January 9, 2017 15:00 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | January 23, 2017 17:15 | January 23, 2017 18:30 | 1h 15m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/howard-county