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2023 Washington County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, AR went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 776K customer-hours (Arkansas average 13.6 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1440th 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 Washington 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 21:45 | January 28, 2023 05:30 | 3d 7h | 19,870 | 464K |
| 2 | June 20, 2023 15:15 | June 21, 2023 02:15 | 11h | 17,963 | 5,663 |
| 3 | December 1, 2023 12:15 | December 1, 2023 19:00 | 6h 45m | 14,065 | 7,074 |
| 4 | January 12, 2023 04:00 | January 12, 2023 11:30 | 7h 30m | 7,456 | 9,617 |
| 5 | August 9, 2023 11:00 | August 10, 2023 05:15 | 18h 15m | 6,305 | 5,783 |
| 6 | September 28, 2023 14:30 | September 28, 2023 21:15 | 6h 45m | 5,561 | 5,437 |
| 7 | June 14, 2023 09:00 | June 16, 2023 00:30 | 1d 15h | 4,577 | 16K |
| 8 | October 3, 2023 12:30 | October 3, 2023 23:45 | 11h 15m | 3,881 | 3,160 |
| 9 | December 7, 2023 00:00 | December 7, 2023 10:30 | 10h 30m | 3,874 | 1,018 |
| 10 | July 13, 2023 08:45 | July 13, 2023 22:15 | 13h 30m | 3,643 | 4,672 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 127 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Washington 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 |
| 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 |
| Ozarks Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2023 | 4.8 hrs | 1.92 | 55 min | 0.78 |
| Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 149,990 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county