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2021 Desha County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Desha County, AR went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 652nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Desha County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 3, 2021 14:15 | October 4, 2021 03:45 | 13h 30m | 3,010 | 15K |
| 2 | April 9, 2021 22:15 | April 10, 2021 23:30 | 1d 1h | 1,059 | 2,838 |
| 3 | February 16, 2021 08:15 | February 17, 2021 04:15 | 20h | 950 | 2,014 |
| 4 | June 10, 2021 12:45 | June 10, 2021 16:45 | 4h | 616 | 744 |
| 5 | June 7, 2021 22:45 | June 9, 2021 23:45 | 2d 1h | 555 | 4,588 |
| 6 | March 16, 2021 05:30 | March 16, 2021 07:15 | 1h 45m | 536 | 937 |
| 7 | March 16, 2021 10:00 | March 16, 2021 17:15 | 7h 15m | 535 | 2,364 |
| 8 | December 29, 2021 21:30 | December 30, 2021 04:30 | 7h | 504 | 1,623 |
| 9 | July 17, 2021 16:45 | July 18, 2021 01:00 | 8h 15m | 452 | 1,812 |
| 10 | July 17, 2021 09:15 | July 17, 2021 15:30 | 6h 15m | 382 | 1,916 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 56 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Desha County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 6.4 hrs | 1.76 | 4.4 hrs | 1.51 |
| C & L Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,462 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. Desha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Desha County, AR annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/arkansas/desha-county