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2021 Newton County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Newton County, AR went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Arkansas average 5.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1374th 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 Newton 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 | November 20, 2021 06:00 | November 20, 2021 07:00 | 1h | 4,993 | 4,993 |
| 2 | February 19, 2021 16:15 | February 20, 2021 02:30 | 10h 15m | 870 | 2,368 |
| 3 | January 1, 2021 14:00 | January 1, 2021 21:15 | 7h 15m | 746 | 802 |
| 4 | August 14, 2021 00:15 | August 14, 2021 03:30 | 3h 15m | 456 | 1,003 |
| 5 | May 31, 2021 15:00 | May 31, 2021 16:15 | 1h 15m | 439 | 369 |
| 6 | June 10, 2021 01:15 | June 10, 2021 02:00 | 45m | 438 | 329 |
| 7 | October 15, 2021 12:00 | October 15, 2021 14:00 | 2h | 396 | 718 |
| 8 | January 1, 2021 06:45 | January 1, 2021 12:00 | 5h 15m | 289 | 742 |
| 9 | February 11, 2021 21:45 | February 12, 2021 01:00 | 3h 15m | 245 | 564 |
| 10 | February 18, 2021 06:45 | February 18, 2021 09:15 | 2h 30m | 242 | 494 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Newton 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 |
| 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 |
| Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.49 | 3.5 hrs | 1.49 |
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 ÷ 3,813 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county