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2024 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Arkansas average 8.5 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 973rd 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 Howard 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 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 24, 2024 19:00 | 9h 45m | 2,999 | 3,072 |
| 2 | July 27, 2024 04:45 | July 27, 2024 08:15 | 3h 30m | 2,104 | 6,834 |
| 3 | July 8, 2024 23:30 | July 10, 2024 23:30 | 2d | 1,193 | 9,888 |
| 4 | April 10, 2024 09:30 | April 11, 2024 21:15 | 1d 11h | 1,046 | 4,775 |
| 5 | September 11, 2024 17:45 | September 12, 2024 01:30 | 7h 45m | 952 | 880 |
| 6 | October 15, 2024 22:15 | October 16, 2024 08:00 | 9h 45m | 803 | 2,036 |
| 7 | October 14, 2024 14:45 | October 14, 2024 19:30 | 4h 45m | 802 | 1,408 |
| 8 | September 19, 2024 17:15 | September 20, 2024 01:45 | 8h 30m | 796 | 6,759 |
| 9 | April 26, 2024 22:45 | April 27, 2024 18:30 | 19h 45m | 657 | 1,396 |
| 10 | April 20, 2024 16:45 | April 20, 2024 17:45 | 1h | 647 | 558 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 25 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| South Central Ark El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,087 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county