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2023 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2263rd 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 Polk 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 20:15 | January 26, 2023 00:45 | 1d 4h | 1,303 | 2,557 |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 22:30 | April 1, 2023 03:45 | 5h 15m | 823 | 2,635 |
| 3 | June 18, 2023 05:15 | June 21, 2023 00:00 | 2d 18h | 587 | 8,771 |
| 4 | January 12, 2023 03:00 | January 12, 2023 04:30 | 1h 30m | 408 | 151 |
| 5 | August 6, 2023 12:15 | August 6, 2023 13:30 | 1h 15m | 283 | 316 |
| 6 | January 31, 2023 03:45 | January 31, 2023 12:15 | 8h 30m | 223 | 1,755 |
| 7 | February 2, 2023 07:00 | February 2, 2023 14:00 | 7h | 221 | 285 |
| 8 | June 16, 2023 05:15 | June 16, 2023 15:30 | 10h 15m | 202 | 391 |
| 9 | September 20, 2023 22:45 | September 20, 2023 23:00 | 15m | 196 | 49 |
| 10 | March 24, 2023 19:15 | March 24, 2023 22:00 | 2h 45m | 185 | 235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,572 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county