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2020 Arkansas County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Arkansas County, AR went without power for an average of 164.0 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 27th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Arkansas County, 2020
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 12, 2020 12:15 | April 30, 2020 23:15 | 18d 11h | 13,042 | 1.4M |
| 2 | August 6, 2020 13:30 | August 6, 2020 21:30 | 8h | 2,546 | 1,129 |
| 3 | May 22, 2020 04:00 | May 23, 2020 01:00 | 21h | 2,499 | 5,927 |
| 4 | September 3, 2020 14:15 | September 3, 2020 21:15 | 7h | 2,499 | 646 |
| 5 | June 8, 2020 18:00 | June 17, 2020 10:30 | 8d 16h | 2,485 | 4,654 |
| 6 | May 25, 2020 02:30 | May 25, 2020 19:00 | 16h 30m | 2,449 | 30K |
| 7 | January 14, 2020 19:15 | January 14, 2020 21:15 | 2h | 1,632 | 3,263 |
| 8 | August 27, 2020 00:15 | August 29, 2020 11:45 | 2d 11h | 1,476 | 5,371 |
| 9 | October 10, 2020 10:15 | October 10, 2020 22:30 | 12h 15m | 1,455 | 3,805 |
| 10 | May 8, 2020 11:45 | May 9, 2020 17:15 | 1d 5h | 1,328 | 2,976 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 39 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Arkansas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 19.8 hrs | 2.10 | 4.5 hrs | 1.52 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 8.4 hrs | 1.82 | 2.0 hrs | 1.36 |
| C & L Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Arkansas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,409 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. Arkansas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Arkansas County, AR annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/arkansas/arkansas-county