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2021 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1212th 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 Howard 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 | February 16, 2021 14:15 | February 16, 2021 17:45 | 3h 30m | 2,227 | 6,406 |
| 2 | September 27, 2021 06:15 | September 27, 2021 09:30 | 3h 15m | 1,913 | 4,605 |
| 3 | May 19, 2021 01:45 | May 19, 2021 15:30 | 13h 45m | 900 | 1,519 |
| 4 | June 7, 2021 03:15 | June 7, 2021 17:00 | 13h 45m | 787 | 1,772 |
| 5 | August 14, 2021 19:30 | August 15, 2021 10:00 | 14h 30m | 674 | 1,596 |
| 6 | September 20, 2021 14:45 | September 20, 2021 19:15 | 4h 30m | 667 | 1,177 |
| 7 | August 16, 2021 21:00 | August 16, 2021 22:15 | 1h 15m | 662 | 565 |
| 8 | May 4, 2021 05:45 | May 5, 2021 23:00 | 1d 17h | 577 | 6,578 |
| 9 | September 29, 2021 02:30 | September 29, 2021 02:45 | 15m | 485 | 121 |
| 10 | April 14, 2021 13:30 | April 14, 2021 14:45 | 1h 15m | 359 | 353 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 20 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2021 | 11.8 hrs | 2.41 | 5.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2021 | 8.2 hrs | 1.79 | 5.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| South Central Ark El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,087 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county