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2023 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 284K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 592nd 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 Independence 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 | April 10, 2023 14:15 | April 10, 2023 18:15 | 4h | 8,697 | 4,058 |
| 2 | August 10, 2023 03:00 | August 13, 2023 01:30 | 2d 22h | 7,338 | 74K |
| 3 | January 25, 2023 01:00 | January 28, 2023 03:00 | 3d 2h | 3,287 | 86K |
| 4 | April 15, 2023 23:15 | April 19, 2023 20:30 | 3d 21h | 2,528 | 20K |
| 5 | June 25, 2023 21:45 | June 29, 2023 02:15 | 3d 4h | 2,207 | 25K |
| 6 | June 24, 2023 12:30 | June 24, 2023 15:00 | 2h 30m | 2,194 | 4,150 |
| 7 | November 27, 2023 11:30 | November 27, 2023 12:45 | 1h 15m | 1,746 | 1,747 |
| 8 | August 13, 2023 22:30 | August 14, 2023 04:30 | 6h | 1,570 | 2,367 |
| 9 | October 19, 2023 14:45 | October 20, 2023 01:45 | 11h | 1,543 | 1,960 |
| 10 | July 11, 2023 13:15 | July 11, 2023 17:30 | 4h 15m | 1,531 | 1,887 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 58 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Independence 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 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.52 | 3.2 hrs | 1.92 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 7.3 hrs | 3.21 | 7.0 hrs | 3.17 |
| Farmers Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,306 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. Independence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Independence 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/independence-county