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2017 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 844th 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 Independence 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 | March 1, 2017 09:00 | March 3, 2017 03:00 | 1d 18h | 3,797 | 49K |
| 2 | September 23, 2017 14:00 | September 23, 2017 14:45 | 45m | 1,841 | 1,381 |
| 3 | June 23, 2017 20:15 | June 25, 2017 19:15 | 1d 23h | 1,766 | 32K |
| 4 | August 19, 2017 18:00 | August 20, 2017 16:30 | 22h 30m | 1,705 | 2,611 |
| 5 | May 27, 2017 23:00 | May 28, 2017 21:30 | 22h 30m | 1,483 | 2,270 |
| 6 | April 10, 2017 07:15 | April 10, 2017 10:30 | 3h 15m | 1,460 | 4,745 |
| 7 | June 20, 2017 21:00 | June 20, 2017 23:45 | 2h 45m | 1,179 | 2,954 |
| 8 | December 26, 2017 23:45 | December 27, 2017 04:00 | 4h 15m | 855 | 1,718 |
| 9 | September 7, 2017 10:15 | September 7, 2017 10:30 | 15m | 833 | 208 |
| 10 | October 1, 2017 14:00 | October 1, 2017 15:00 | 1h | 697 | 692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 35 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Independence 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 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 2.30 | 2.5 hrs | 1.92 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/independence-county