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2018 Van Buren County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Van Buren County, AR went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 25 customer-hours (Arkansas average 4.4 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 74 Arkansas counties and 2775th 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 Van Buren County, 2018
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2018 14:15 | April 30, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | May 23, 2018 17:00 | May 23, 2018 17:15 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | November 28, 2018 15:15 | November 28, 2018 17:15 | 2h | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | January 22, 2018 19:00 | January 22, 2018 20:15 | 1h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | January 31, 2018 14:30 | January 31, 2018 14:45 | 15m | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 02:45 | April 14, 2018 10:00 | 7h 15m | 2 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 0 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 Van Buren 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 |
| 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 ÷ 15,567 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. Van Buren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Buren 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/van-buren-county