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2020 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2220th 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 Polk 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 29, 2020 03:15 | May 1, 2020 02:15 | 1d 23h | 2,014 | 12K |
| 2 | September 4, 2020 21:15 | September 4, 2020 21:30 | 15m | 1,393 | 348 |
| 3 | August 12, 2020 06:45 | August 12, 2020 18:45 | 12h | 1,336 | 756 |
| 4 | June 3, 2020 19:00 | June 3, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 1,041 | 260 |
| 5 | April 5, 2020 15:30 | April 5, 2020 17:00 | 1h 30m | 787 | 986 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 04:00 | July 12, 2020 10:30 | 6h 30m | 590 | 896 |
| 7 | August 18, 2020 05:15 | August 18, 2020 13:30 | 8h 15m | 523 | 682 |
| 8 | August 30, 2020 02:00 | August 30, 2020 13:30 | 11h 30m | 361 | 1,381 |
| 9 | January 3, 2020 13:30 | January 3, 2020 15:00 | 1h 30m | 303 | 455 |
| 10 | June 4, 2020 12:30 | June 4, 2020 14:30 | 2h | 296 | 371 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,572 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county