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2022 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Arkansas average 6.8 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2731st 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 Polk 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 | February 3, 2022 12:45 | February 3, 2022 16:45 | 4h | 1,407 | 1,545 |
| 2 | September 1, 2022 15:30 | September 2, 2022 02:00 | 10h 30m | 463 | 1,030 |
| 3 | January 14, 2022 05:15 | January 14, 2022 08:15 | 3h | 216 | 648 |
| 4 | June 10, 2022 11:30 | June 10, 2022 19:15 | 7h 45m | 204 | 563 |
| 5 | April 13, 2022 15:15 | April 14, 2022 02:15 | 11h | 178 | 372 |
| 6 | July 21, 2022 20:00 | July 22, 2022 04:30 | 8h 30m | 151 | 585 |
| 7 | December 22, 2022 20:45 | December 23, 2022 00:00 | 3h 15m | 77 | 53 |
| 8 | November 5, 2022 01:00 | November 6, 2022 19:45 | 1d 18h | 76 | 1,307 |
| 9 | July 22, 2022 19:15 | July 22, 2022 21:15 | 2h | 73 | 74 |
| 10 | May 8, 2022 03:45 | May 8, 2022 06:00 | 2h 15m | 72 | 143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,572 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county