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2019 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Arkansas average 6.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1088th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hempstead County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2019 02:15 | April 13, 2019 05:30 | 3h 15m | 1,241 | 320 |
| 2 | July 10, 2019 22:45 | July 12, 2019 17:00 | 1d 18h | 1,005 | 18K |
| 3 | December 16, 2019 11:45 | December 16, 2019 12:00 | 15m | 825 | 206 |
| 4 | July 22, 2019 20:15 | July 23, 2019 01:30 | 5h 15m | 820 | 220 |
| 5 | June 20, 2019 01:00 | June 21, 2019 18:15 | 1d 17h | 582 | 9,485 |
| 6 | April 25, 2019 02:30 | April 25, 2019 08:45 | 6h 15m | 531 | 779 |
| 7 | December 21, 2019 23:45 | December 22, 2019 03:00 | 3h 15m | 524 | 1,695 |
| 8 | December 28, 2019 22:15 | December 29, 2019 00:45 | 2h 30m | 524 | 1,302 |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 01:30 | October 31, 2019 05:30 | 4h | 520 | 1,962 |
| 10 | March 9, 2019 12:45 | March 9, 2019 13:00 | 15m | 445 | 111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 36 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2019, 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 83% of Arkansas's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/arkansas/hempstead-county