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2021 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.4 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1508th 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 Independence 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 15, 2021 07:15 | February 17, 2021 05:00 | 1d 21h | 5,819 | 5,938 |
| 2 | July 8, 2021 02:45 | July 8, 2021 07:00 | 4h 15m | 1,958 | 1,489 |
| 3 | August 18, 2021 15:30 | August 18, 2021 23:30 | 8h | 1,957 | 1,925 |
| 4 | October 29, 2021 19:45 | October 30, 2021 00:30 | 4h 45m | 1,957 | 4,683 |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 01:15 | December 12, 2021 16:30 | 1d 15h | 1,765 | 17K |
| 6 | July 12, 2021 15:00 | July 12, 2021 18:30 | 3h 30m | 1,470 | 750 |
| 7 | March 28, 2021 01:15 | March 28, 2021 03:00 | 1h 45m | 1,462 | 2,559 |
| 8 | March 28, 2021 03:45 | March 28, 2021 07:00 | 3h 15m | 1,462 | 1,165 |
| 9 | December 20, 2021 16:45 | December 20, 2021 23:15 | 6h 30m | 1,277 | 2,242 |
| 10 | May 4, 2021 06:15 | May 5, 2021 20:30 | 1d 14h | 1,180 | 4,423 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 44 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Independence 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 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | 1.47 | 1.9 hrs | 1.30 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | 2021 | 5.1 hrs | 2.00 | 82 min | 1.30 |
| Farmers Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,306 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. Independence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Independence 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/independence-county