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2020 Clay County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, AR went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 857th 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 Clay 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 | December 1, 2020 07:00 | December 1, 2020 22:15 | 15h 15m | 1,309 | 20K |
| 2 | February 24, 2020 02:00 | February 24, 2020 08:00 | 6h | 1,294 | 4,859 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 06:45 | January 12, 2020 02:00 | 19h 15m | 1,261 | 12K |
| 4 | May 20, 2020 14:15 | May 20, 2020 20:45 | 6h 30m | 1,214 | 7,159 |
| 5 | January 10, 2020 21:15 | January 10, 2020 21:30 | 15m | 550 | 138 |
| 6 | July 8, 2020 02:00 | July 10, 2020 22:15 | 2d 20h | 531 | 1,092 |
| 7 | April 3, 2020 16:45 | April 3, 2020 18:45 | 2h | 487 | 962 |
| 8 | May 10, 2020 14:00 | May 10, 2020 16:00 | 2h | 487 | 974 |
| 9 | May 3, 2020 18:45 | May 3, 2020 21:45 | 3h | 275 | 825 |
| 10 | May 4, 2020 22:15 | May 6, 2020 21:00 | 1d 22h | 275 | 1,503 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 22 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Clay 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 |
| Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Piggott - (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 86% of Arkansas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,466 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county