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2022 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Arkansas average 6.8 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 967th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 21, 2022 20:15 | July 23, 2022 03:00 | 1d 6h | 2,993 | 11K |
| 2 | April 26, 2022 18:15 | April 26, 2022 22:00 | 3h 45m | 1,976 | 1,003 |
| 3 | June 18, 2022 23:15 | June 20, 2022 07:15 | 1d 8h | 1,112 | 8,143 |
| 4 | March 22, 2022 09:15 | March 22, 2022 16:00 | 6h 45m | 923 | 681 |
| 5 | September 15, 2022 23:15 | September 16, 2022 00:45 | 1h 30m | 814 | 207 |
| 6 | November 20, 2022 17:15 | November 20, 2022 19:45 | 2h 30m | 662 | 668 |
| 7 | October 24, 2022 20:30 | October 24, 2022 23:30 | 3h | 588 | 161 |
| 8 | September 19, 2022 18:00 | September 19, 2022 23:00 | 5h | 572 | 324 |
| 9 | June 2, 2022 13:30 | June 3, 2022 02:00 | 12h 30m | 489 | 1,249 |
| 10 | April 28, 2022 02:00 | April 28, 2022 02:15 | 15m | 443 | 111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 8.9 hrs | 2.53 | 5.8 hrs | 2.20 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.16 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/arkansas/howard-county