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2019 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Arkansas average 6.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1244th 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 Independence 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 | October 7, 2019 00:15 | October 7, 2019 17:45 | 17h 30m | 1,945 | 2,542 |
| 2 | December 17, 2019 18:15 | December 17, 2019 23:00 | 4h 45m | 1,938 | 1,123 |
| 3 | September 25, 2019 22:15 | September 27, 2019 06:15 | 1d 8h | 1,933 | 19K |
| 4 | August 18, 2019 10:00 | August 18, 2019 10:45 | 45m | 1,864 | 480 |
| 5 | September 30, 2019 19:15 | October 1, 2019 01:00 | 5h 45m | 1,856 | 1,404 |
| 6 | August 20, 2019 04:45 | August 20, 2019 05:15 | 30m | 1,853 | 925 |
| 7 | August 17, 2019 21:15 | August 18, 2019 09:00 | 11h 45m | 1,350 | 15K |
| 8 | July 15, 2019 11:45 | July 15, 2019 18:30 | 6h 45m | 1,311 | 1,676 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 06:15 | November 27, 2019 15:30 | 9h 15m | 1,080 | 3,589 |
| 10 | January 11, 2019 23:00 | January 12, 2019 00:45 | 1h 45m | 1,076 | 1,095 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 42 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Independence 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 |
| 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 83% of Arkansas's customers in 2019; 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, 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/independence-county