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2017 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1812th 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 Polk 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 | May 3, 2017 14:15 | May 3, 2017 20:30 | 6h 15m | 1,426 | 7,849 |
| 2 | July 2, 2017 11:30 | July 2, 2017 13:15 | 1h 45m | 789 | 1,381 |
| 3 | September 10, 2017 04:15 | September 10, 2017 05:45 | 1h 30m | 775 | 986 |
| 4 | May 28, 2017 06:30 | May 28, 2017 16:30 | 10h | 509 | 2,907 |
| 5 | October 12, 2017 16:15 | October 12, 2017 20:45 | 4h 30m | 474 | 174 |
| 6 | October 20, 2017 05:00 | October 20, 2017 10:45 | 5h 45m | 461 | 1,624 |
| 7 | December 15, 2017 15:15 | December 15, 2017 15:30 | 15m | 460 | 115 |
| 8 | March 7, 2017 19:15 | March 8, 2017 00:00 | 4h 45m | 350 | 537 |
| 9 | October 5, 2017 21:15 | October 5, 2017 21:30 | 15m | 244 | 61 |
| 10 | November 28, 2017 13:30 | November 28, 2017 15:00 | 1h 30m | 243 | 191 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 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 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 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/polk-county