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2021 Madison County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Madison County, AR went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.4 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1774th 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 Madison 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 | April 29, 2021 10:15 | April 29, 2021 17:45 | 7h 30m | 6,753 | 5,176 |
| 2 | November 24, 2021 16:00 | November 24, 2021 16:45 | 45m | 5,480 | 3,694 |
| 3 | August 13, 2021 23:30 | August 14, 2021 03:15 | 3h 45m | 5,431 | 5,370 |
| 4 | November 9, 2021 17:30 | November 9, 2021 18:15 | 45m | 2,674 | 1,337 |
| 5 | June 17, 2021 15:30 | June 17, 2021 16:30 | 1h | 2,261 | 1,115 |
| 6 | December 18, 2021 00:00 | December 18, 2021 03:45 | 3h 45m | 1,685 | 2,512 |
| 7 | August 4, 2021 22:15 | August 4, 2021 23:45 | 1h 30m | 1,663 | 2,493 |
| 8 | July 3, 2021 00:45 | July 3, 2021 04:45 | 4h | 1,643 | 1,484 |
| 9 | December 12, 2021 21:30 | December 12, 2021 22:00 | 30m | 1,627 | 407 |
| 10 | September 6, 2021 15:15 | September 6, 2021 17:15 | 2h | 529 | 1,058 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 29 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Madison 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp | 2021 | 6.0 hrs | 2.06 | 2.8 hrs | 1.88 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 2.10 | 2.1 hrs | 1.50 |
| Ozarks Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2021 | 86 min | 1.06 | 49 min | 0.80 |
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 ÷ 13,452 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. Madison County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county