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2024 Desha County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Desha County, AR went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Arkansas average 8.5 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 967th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Desha County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 18, 2024 22:15 | August 22, 2024 00:15 | 3d 2h | 1,269 | 16K |
| 2 | July 18, 2024 01:00 | July 19, 2024 02:15 | 1d 1h | 812 | 4,345 |
| 3 | January 8, 2024 22:00 | January 9, 2024 00:00 | 2h | 609 | 154 |
| 4 | March 4, 2024 22:30 | March 6, 2024 03:00 | 1d 4h | 597 | 2,716 |
| 5 | June 25, 2024 21:15 | June 26, 2024 01:45 | 4h 30m | 460 | 1,357 |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 12:00 | January 13, 2024 01:00 | 13h | 393 | 1,348 |
| 7 | May 6, 2024 14:15 | May 7, 2024 12:30 | 22h 15m | 381 | 2,487 |
| 8 | September 5, 2024 05:30 | September 5, 2024 09:30 | 4h | 381 | 1,524 |
| 9 | August 17, 2024 21:45 | August 17, 2024 22:45 | 1h | 379 | 285 |
| 10 | August 30, 2024 21:15 | August 31, 2024 02:15 | 5h | 269 | 718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 37 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 Desha County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 6.2 hrs | 1.81 | 3.8 hrs | 1.50 |
| C & L Electric Coop Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,462 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. Desha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Desha County, AR annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/arkansas/desha-county