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2020 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1939th 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 Howard 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 | June 6, 2020 06:30 | June 6, 2020 18:15 | 11h 45m | 740 | 4,269 |
| 2 | May 31, 2020 21:30 | June 1, 2020 00:30 | 3h | 347 | 595 |
| 3 | April 29, 2020 04:00 | May 1, 2020 02:45 | 1d 22h | 302 | 7,170 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 00:00 | April 13, 2020 17:30 | 17h 30m | 201 | 1,250 |
| 5 | August 30, 2020 03:15 | August 30, 2020 17:00 | 13h 45m | 191 | 865 |
| 6 | May 23, 2020 09:15 | May 23, 2020 17:15 | 8h | 185 | 898 |
| 7 | May 26, 2020 00:45 | May 26, 2020 05:00 | 4h 15m | 155 | 271 |
| 8 | May 8, 2020 11:45 | May 8, 2020 15:00 | 3h 15m | 100 | 172 |
| 9 | April 22, 2020 20:30 | April 22, 2020 21:30 | 1h | 78 | 55 |
| 10 | March 28, 2020 21:00 | March 28, 2020 22:45 | 1h 45m | 69 | 62 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| South Central Ark El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rich Mountain Elec 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 ÷ 6,087 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county