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2020 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 181K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 523rd 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 Hempstead 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 00:00 | April 18, 2020 01:15 | 5d 1h | 2,010 | 74K |
| 2 | June 6, 2020 05:45 | June 7, 2020 04:00 | 22h 15m | 1,715 | 17K |
| 3 | April 29, 2020 04:15 | May 2, 2020 02:45 | 2d 22h | 1,337 | 32K |
| 4 | June 8, 2020 15:45 | June 8, 2020 19:45 | 4h | 1,270 | 2,815 |
| 5 | April 23, 2020 02:15 | April 23, 2020 18:45 | 16h 30m | 908 | 6,535 |
| 6 | May 25, 2020 21:30 | May 26, 2020 21:30 | 1d | 853 | 4,281 |
| 7 | March 29, 2020 20:00 | March 30, 2020 01:00 | 5h | 832 | 2,668 |
| 8 | January 12, 2020 00:00 | January 12, 2020 00:15 | 15m | 827 | 207 |
| 9 | September 22, 2020 02:15 | September 22, 2020 09:15 | 7h | 637 | 2,975 |
| 10 | December 23, 2020 16:15 | December 23, 2020 18:00 | 1h 45m | 622 | 479 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 36 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 Hempstead 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2020 | 26.5 hrs | 2.79 | 4.6 hrs | 1.94 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 1.53 | 3.1 hrs | 1.21 |
| City of Hope - (AR) | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 | 41 min | 0.67 |
| South Central Ark El 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 86% of Arkansas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,330 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. Hempstead County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hempstead 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/hempstead-county