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2023 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 21.5 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 372nd 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 Howard 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 | June 18, 2023 05:00 | June 23, 2023 18:30 | 5d 13h | 3,615 | 107K |
| 2 | October 5, 2023 04:45 | October 5, 2023 05:00 | 15m | 1,409 | 352 |
| 3 | October 30, 2023 05:45 | October 30, 2023 07:30 | 1h 45m | 971 | 732 |
| 4 | October 26, 2023 21:30 | October 26, 2023 22:45 | 1h 15m | 969 | 975 |
| 5 | April 5, 2023 13:45 | April 5, 2023 15:15 | 1h 30m | 935 | 766 |
| 6 | December 2, 2023 17:30 | December 2, 2023 17:45 | 15m | 807 | 202 |
| 7 | June 26, 2023 08:45 | June 27, 2023 17:15 | 1d 8h | 704 | 2,909 |
| 8 | August 7, 2023 19:15 | August 7, 2023 20:15 | 1h | 663 | 170 |
| 9 | June 24, 2023 17:30 | June 24, 2023 21:15 | 3h 45m | 655 | 1,276 |
| 10 | June 14, 2023 19:15 | June 14, 2023 20:00 | 45m | 654 | 356 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 n/a of Arkansas's customers in 2023; 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, 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/howard-county