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2023 Newton County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Newton County, AR went without power for an average of 27.7 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 267th 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 Newton 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 | January 24, 2023 23:45 | January 28, 2023 15:45 | 3d 16h | 3,752 | 82K |
| 2 | May 10, 2023 21:15 | May 11, 2023 03:30 | 6h 15m | 1,718 | 4,549 |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 02:30 | March 3, 2023 05:00 | 2h 30m | 1,237 | 1,546 |
| 4 | November 16, 2023 14:45 | November 16, 2023 21:30 | 6h 45m | 850 | 3,744 |
| 5 | August 28, 2023 20:30 | August 29, 2023 00:30 | 4h | 576 | 1,540 |
| 6 | June 8, 2023 18:15 | June 8, 2023 21:30 | 3h 15m | 573 | 1,257 |
| 7 | July 31, 2023 05:45 | July 31, 2023 16:45 | 11h | 466 | 1,629 |
| 8 | March 31, 2023 21:15 | April 1, 2023 06:00 | 8h 45m | 223 | 815 |
| 9 | June 14, 2023 15:00 | June 14, 2023 19:45 | 4h 45m | 185 | 355 |
| 10 | December 28, 2023 18:00 | December 28, 2023 18:15 | 15m | 168 | 42 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 20 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 Newton 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 |
| Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 10.8 hrs | 2.49 | 5.0 hrs | 1.90 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2023 | 8.4 hrs | 2.28 | 2.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 13.9 hrs | 2.43 | 3.0 hrs | 1.33 |
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 ÷ 3,813 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county