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2019 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 75 customer-hours (Arkansas average 6.1 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2887th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard 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 | December 22, 2019 07:30 | December 22, 2019 09:00 | 1h 30m | 33 | 36 |
| 2 | December 22, 2019 16:00 | December 22, 2019 17:45 | 1h 45m | 31 | 30 |
| 3 | December 9, 2019 23:15 | December 10, 2019 00:15 | 1h | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | December 6, 2019 19:00 | December 6, 2019 19:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | December 12, 2019 18:15 | December 12, 2019 19:00 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | December 20, 2019 20:30 | December 20, 2019 20:45 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | December 22, 2019 10:15 | December 22, 2019 11:45 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | December 22, 2019 13:45 | December 22, 2019 14:30 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | December 25, 2019 17:45 | December 25, 2019 18:30 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | December 27, 2019 04:45 | December 27, 2019 05:30 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| South Central Ark El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rich Mountain Elec 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 ÷ 6,087 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county