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2023 Prairie County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Prairie County, AR went without power for an average of 66.8 hours, a total of 262K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 63rd 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 Prairie 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 25, 2023 22:45 | July 2, 2023 05:15 | 6d 6h | 5,320 | 173K |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 20:15 | April 1, 2023 23:00 | 1d 2h | 2,083 | 5,378 |
| 3 | August 23, 2023 15:30 | August 24, 2023 00:45 | 9h 15m | 1,455 | 1,534 |
| 4 | October 13, 2023 05:45 | October 13, 2023 11:30 | 5h 45m | 1,395 | 7,673 |
| 5 | July 12, 2023 06:00 | July 12, 2023 06:15 | 15m | 1,296 | 324 |
| 6 | April 20, 2023 14:30 | April 24, 2023 05:15 | 3d 14h | 1,228 | 2,180 |
| 7 | June 14, 2023 10:30 | June 15, 2023 20:00 | 1d 9h | 1,001 | 2,572 |
| 8 | June 18, 2023 08:15 | June 20, 2023 01:15 | 1d 17h | 991 | 20K |
| 9 | August 28, 2023 13:45 | August 28, 2023 23:45 | 10h | 692 | 901 |
| 10 | August 4, 2023 16:00 | August 6, 2023 06:00 | 1d 14h | 604 | 3,934 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 54 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Prairie 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 |
| Woodruff Electric Coop Corp | 2023 | 40 min | 0.13 | 36 min | 0.13 |
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 ÷ 3,917 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. Prairie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Prairie 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/prairie-county