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2020 Little River County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Little River County, AR went without power for an average of 19.8 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 432nd 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 Little River 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 | May 8, 2020 09:00 | May 9, 2020 03:15 | 18h 15m | 2,115 | 6,127 |
| 2 | August 24, 2020 00:30 | August 24, 2020 02:00 | 1h 30m | 1,381 | 1,727 |
| 3 | June 6, 2020 07:00 | June 7, 2020 05:15 | 22h 15m | 1,216 | 9,969 |
| 4 | November 25, 2020 16:15 | November 25, 2020 17:15 | 1h | 954 | 240 |
| 5 | September 26, 2020 06:45 | September 26, 2020 15:00 | 8h 15m | 939 | 4,984 |
| 6 | May 5, 2020 12:30 | May 5, 2020 18:15 | 5h 45m | 882 | 877 |
| 7 | May 14, 2020 15:45 | May 14, 2020 17:00 | 1h 15m | 878 | 1,086 |
| 8 | April 29, 2020 04:15 | April 29, 2020 23:30 | 19h 15m | 867 | 6,390 |
| 9 | May 2, 2020 00:30 | May 2, 2020 03:00 | 2h 30m | 745 | 938 |
| 10 | October 1, 2020 14:00 | October 1, 2020 18:00 | 4h | 684 | 952 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 33 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Little River 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 |
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 ÷ 3,623 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. Little River County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Little River 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/little-river-county