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2020 Desha County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Desha County, AR went without power for an average of 50.2 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 162nd 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 Desha 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 13, 2020 02:00 | April 19, 2020 22:30 | 6d 20h | 5,867 | 181K |
| 2 | August 26, 2020 23:45 | August 30, 2020 04:30 | 3d 4h | 1,746 | 17K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 03:45 | January 18, 2020 22:15 | 7d 18h | 1,696 | 45K |
| 4 | November 25, 2020 12:30 | November 25, 2020 16:30 | 4h | 1,474 | 833 |
| 5 | June 28, 2020 21:30 | June 29, 2020 04:30 | 7h | 1,100 | 3,570 |
| 6 | January 10, 2020 19:30 | January 11, 2020 00:15 | 4h 45m | 1,061 | 2,503 |
| 7 | June 13, 2020 11:30 | June 13, 2020 11:45 | 15m | 616 | 154 |
| 8 | March 6, 2020 13:00 | March 6, 2020 18:00 | 5h | 541 | 1,368 |
| 9 | November 25, 2020 19:30 | November 26, 2020 15:45 | 20h 15m | 534 | 1,807 |
| 10 | October 10, 2020 09:15 | October 11, 2020 16:30 | 1d 7h | 432 | 3,073 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 28 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Desha 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,462 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. Desha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Desha 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/desha-county