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2024 Hempstead County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hempstead County, AR went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (Arkansas average 8.5 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1063rd 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 Hempstead 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 | July 8, 2024 23:45 | July 10, 2024 22:30 | 1d 22h | 1,425 | 18K |
| 2 | May 24, 2024 21:30 | May 27, 2024 20:15 | 2d 22h | 1,308 | 21K |
| 3 | July 27, 2024 04:45 | July 27, 2024 08:45 | 4h | 1,251 | 4,066 |
| 4 | January 9, 2024 07:30 | January 9, 2024 17:45 | 10h 15m | 1,202 | 1,552 |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 10:45 | May 24, 2024 14:45 | 4h | 1,190 | 1,431 |
| 6 | April 10, 2024 15:00 | April 12, 2024 14:15 | 1d 23h | 997 | 5,623 |
| 7 | June 3, 2024 21:30 | June 6, 2024 17:00 | 2d 19h | 942 | 16K |
| 8 | May 18, 2024 19:30 | May 18, 2024 22:45 | 3h 15m | 784 | 1,019 |
| 9 | June 25, 2024 18:15 | June 26, 2024 01:30 | 7h 15m | 778 | 986 |
| 10 | July 17, 2024 23:30 | July 18, 2024 05:15 | 5h 45m | 627 | 930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Hempstead 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2024 | 16.8 hrs | 2.89 | 4.5 hrs | 1.94 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2024 | 6.8 hrs | 2.21 | 3.2 hrs | 1.54 |
| City of Hope - (AR) | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.98 | 41 min | 0.70 |
| South Central Ark El 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,330 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. Hempstead County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hempstead 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/hempstead-county