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2018 Newton County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Newton County, AR went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 5,614 customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 2101st 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 Newton 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 | July 20, 2018 01:00 | July 20, 2018 23:00 | 22h | 435 | 1,316 |
| 2 | August 8, 2018 04:00 | August 8, 2018 10:15 | 6h 15m | 430 | 2,688 |
| 3 | October 31, 2018 15:30 | October 31, 2018 17:30 | 2h | 322 | 246 |
| 4 | February 16, 2018 08:45 | February 16, 2018 11:45 | 3h | 131 | 385 |
| 5 | August 29, 2018 18:30 | August 29, 2018 20:30 | 2h | 84 | 158 |
| 6 | June 24, 2018 13:45 | June 24, 2018 18:45 | 5h | 49 | 233 |
| 7 | September 24, 2018 17:30 | September 24, 2018 23:45 | 6h 15m | 24 | 150 |
| 8 | July 21, 2018 06:15 | July 21, 2018 07:45 | 1h 30m | 18 | 27 |
| 9 | October 13, 2018 21:45 | October 13, 2018 23:30 | 1h 45m | 14 | 25 |
| 10 | June 2, 2018 19:30 | June 3, 2018 06:30 | 11h | 11 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Newton 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 |
| Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.40 | 73 min | 0.52 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.29 | 89 min | 1.02 |
| Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 1.63 | 3.1 hrs | 1.31 |
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 ÷ 3,813 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county