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2023 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 15.1 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 573rd 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 Hempstead 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 | February 1, 2023 23:45 | February 5, 2023 19:15 | 3d 19h | 2,752 | 42K |
| 2 | June 18, 2023 05:15 | June 23, 2023 00:15 | 4d 19h | 2,432 | 93K |
| 3 | September 8, 2023 13:15 | September 9, 2023 17:45 | 1d 4h | 1,313 | 6,093 |
| 4 | August 30, 2023 15:30 | August 30, 2023 22:00 | 6h 30m | 814 | 1,166 |
| 5 | July 3, 2023 21:15 | July 4, 2023 08:00 | 10h 45m | 590 | 1,080 |
| 6 | March 23, 2023 21:00 | March 24, 2023 00:30 | 3h 30m | 539 | 756 |
| 7 | February 22, 2023 16:30 | February 22, 2023 21:45 | 5h 15m | 537 | 1,191 |
| 8 | January 12, 2023 13:15 | January 12, 2023 19:00 | 5h 45m | 536 | 1,145 |
| 9 | February 22, 2023 06:00 | February 22, 2023 11:30 | 5h 30m | 536 | 1,748 |
| 10 | October 3, 2023 18:45 | October 3, 2023 20:00 | 1h 15m | 527 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 34 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 Hempstead 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2023 | 42.7 hrs | 3.15 | 5.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2023 | 7.5 hrs | 1.99 | 4.2 hrs | 1.72 |
| City of Hope - (AR) | 2023 | 3.3 hrs | 1.74 | 33 min | 0.59 |
| South Central Ark El 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 n/a of Arkansas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,330 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. Hempstead County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hempstead 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/hempstead-county