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2020 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1094th 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 Independence 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 | July 30, 2020 17:00 | July 31, 2020 01:00 | 8h | 5,786 | 32K |
| 2 | July 20, 2020 11:30 | July 20, 2020 12:00 | 30m | 4,445 | 1,850 |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 19:00 | April 12, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 4,403 | 1,101 |
| 4 | August 27, 2020 23:15 | August 29, 2020 23:00 | 1d 23h | 2,428 | 35K |
| 5 | April 22, 2020 18:45 | April 23, 2020 00:45 | 6h | 2,134 | 1,633 |
| 6 | April 17, 2020 18:00 | April 18, 2020 00:00 | 6h | 2,127 | 2,652 |
| 7 | June 8, 2020 21:15 | June 8, 2020 23:30 | 2h 15m | 1,713 | 2,143 |
| 8 | July 21, 2020 17:30 | July 21, 2020 22:45 | 5h 15m | 1,708 | 3,178 |
| 9 | June 23, 2020 08:15 | June 23, 2020 10:45 | 2h 30m | 1,700 | 4,250 |
| 10 | August 7, 2020 11:45 | August 7, 2020 12:00 | 15m | 1,499 | 375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Independence 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 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Farmers Electric Coop Corp - (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 ÷ 19,306 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. Independence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Independence 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/independence-county