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2018 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 1542nd 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 Hempstead 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 | November 25, 2018 14:15 | November 25, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 1,243 | 311 |
| 2 | June 23, 2018 09:45 | June 23, 2018 21:30 | 11h 45m | 737 | 5,677 |
| 3 | September 21, 2018 18:45 | September 21, 2018 20:00 | 1h 15m | 737 | 376 |
| 4 | August 20, 2018 00:45 | August 21, 2018 02:15 | 1d 1h | 534 | 2,250 |
| 5 | May 12, 2018 00:45 | May 12, 2018 01:00 | 15m | 445 | 111 |
| 6 | April 17, 2018 17:30 | April 17, 2018 18:45 | 1h 15m | 439 | 546 |
| 7 | January 17, 2018 04:15 | January 17, 2018 09:45 | 5h 30m | 434 | 1,945 |
| 8 | May 11, 2018 17:30 | May 11, 2018 18:30 | 1h | 432 | 326 |
| 9 | May 30, 2018 15:15 | May 30, 2018 15:30 | 15m | 430 | 108 |
| 10 | August 8, 2018 20:15 | August 9, 2018 02:30 | 6h 15m | 373 | 665 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 34 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 Hempstead 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 2.14 | 4.2 hrs | 1.96 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.23 | 1.8 hrs | 1.20 |
| City of Hope - (AR) | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 0.55 | 1.6 hrs | 0.55 |
| 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 78% of Arkansas's customers in 2018; 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, 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/hempstead-county