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2018 Desha County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Desha County, AR went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 852nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Desha County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 2018 08:30 | July 1, 2018 00:30 | 1d 16h | 2,602 | 5,089 |
| 2 | June 19, 2018 05:45 | June 19, 2018 10:00 | 4h 15m | 2,123 | 6,631 |
| 3 | February 7, 2018 04:00 | February 7, 2018 04:15 | 15m | 1,071 | 268 |
| 4 | April 26, 2018 02:00 | April 26, 2018 05:30 | 3h 30m | 987 | 1,754 |
| 5 | November 14, 2018 18:00 | November 15, 2018 02:30 | 8h 30m | 564 | 994 |
| 6 | February 21, 2018 22:00 | February 22, 2018 00:30 | 2h 30m | 551 | 923 |
| 7 | June 21, 2018 05:45 | June 21, 2018 07:30 | 1h 45m | 498 | 872 |
| 8 | May 17, 2018 22:00 | May 18, 2018 13:00 | 15h | 477 | 631 |
| 9 | August 18, 2018 13:15 | August 18, 2018 16:45 | 3h 30m | 375 | 1,251 |
| 10 | August 1, 2018 05:15 | August 1, 2018 16:45 | 11h 30m | 350 | 378 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 31 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Desha County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 7.5 hrs | 1.93 | 5.0 hrs | 1.74 |
| C & L 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 78% of Arkansas's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,462 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. Desha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Desha County, AR annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/arkansas/desha-county