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2018 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 1199th 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 Independence 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 7, 2018 23:45 | June 8, 2018 04:45 | 5h | 11,533 | 12K |
| 2 | May 17, 2018 17:15 | May 17, 2018 20:00 | 2h 45m | 4,318 | 1,143 |
| 3 | November 25, 2018 20:30 | November 26, 2018 10:30 | 14h | 2,709 | 10K |
| 4 | July 20, 2018 10:30 | July 21, 2018 20:00 | 1d 9h | 1,810 | 7,499 |
| 5 | July 19, 2018 23:45 | July 20, 2018 09:45 | 10h | 1,748 | 3,367 |
| 6 | October 8, 2018 22:00 | October 9, 2018 01:15 | 3h 15m | 1,662 | 1,865 |
| 7 | June 1, 2018 05:45 | June 1, 2018 15:45 | 10h | 1,659 | 6,146 |
| 8 | July 6, 2018 19:15 | July 7, 2018 10:00 | 14h 45m | 1,612 | 3,666 |
| 9 | May 13, 2018 09:15 | May 13, 2018 11:00 | 1h 45m | 1,458 | 2,228 |
| 10 | May 15, 2018 16:30 | May 15, 2018 19:45 | 3h 15m | 1,440 | 1,486 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 2.03 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 78% of Arkansas's customers in 2018; 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, 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/independence-county