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2023 Desha County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Desha County, AR went without power for an average of 25.7 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 294th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Desha County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 20, 2023 19:45 | October 20, 2023 20:45 | 1h | 3,041 | 2,322 |
| 2 | October 21, 2023 13:45 | October 21, 2023 14:00 | 15m | 3,041 | 760 |
| 3 | February 1, 2023 22:45 | February 8, 2023 00:15 | 6d 1h | 2,013 | 90K |
| 4 | May 20, 2023 06:00 | May 20, 2023 08:30 | 2h 30m | 1,045 | 580 |
| 5 | May 6, 2023 14:15 | May 6, 2023 16:15 | 2h | 1,007 | 506 |
| 6 | January 3, 2023 01:45 | January 6, 2023 16:45 | 3d 15h | 679 | 9,435 |
| 7 | August 8, 2023 11:00 | August 8, 2023 17:15 | 6h 15m | 604 | 317 |
| 8 | June 15, 2023 01:45 | June 15, 2023 22:45 | 21h | 542 | 2,274 |
| 9 | March 2, 2023 10:45 | March 2, 2023 18:00 | 7h 15m | 533 | 1,460 |
| 10 | June 10, 2023 18:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 18h | 500 | 3,189 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Desha County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 20.2 hrs | 2.05 | 4.7 hrs | 1.52 |
| C & L Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Arkansas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,462 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. Desha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Desha County, AR annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/arkansas/desha-county