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2020 Prairie County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Prairie County, AR went without power for an average of 39.0 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Arkansas average 10.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 208th 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 Prairie 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 | November 22, 2020 21:30 | November 22, 2020 22:30 | 1h | 1,298 | 1,298 |
| 2 | February 4, 2020 20:45 | February 4, 2020 23:30 | 2h 45m | 1,225 | 2,139 |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 01:45 | April 19, 2020 01:00 | 5d 23h | 1,092 | 87K |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 05:00 | January 13, 2020 08:00 | 2d 3h | 968 | 9,336 |
| 5 | April 22, 2020 02:45 | April 27, 2020 22:15 | 5d 19h | 968 | 21K |
| 6 | December 27, 2020 21:30 | December 28, 2020 02:15 | 4h 45m | 645 | 1,181 |
| 7 | May 26, 2020 01:30 | May 26, 2020 21:00 | 19h 30m | 611 | 2,563 |
| 8 | December 7, 2020 10:45 | December 7, 2020 14:00 | 3h 15m | 517 | 1,038 |
| 9 | July 4, 2020 13:30 | July 4, 2020 13:45 | 15m | 512 | 128 |
| 10 | September 30, 2020 23:30 | October 1, 2020 00:00 | 30m | 503 | 252 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 40 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 Prairie 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 |
| Woodruff Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 19 min | 0.65 | 19 min | 0.65 |
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 ÷ 3,917 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. Prairie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prairie 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/prairie-county