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2024 Independence County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Independence County, AR went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Arkansas average 8.5 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 1567th 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 Independence 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 | February 25, 2024 13:30 | February 25, 2024 18:45 | 5h 15m | 10,015 | 6,262 |
| 2 | January 12, 2024 01:15 | January 14, 2024 03:15 | 2d 2h | 2,714 | 18K |
| 3 | July 17, 2024 01:15 | July 18, 2024 05:45 | 1d 4h | 2,406 | 11K |
| 4 | December 28, 2024 23:15 | December 29, 2024 00:45 | 1h 30m | 2,282 | 1,715 |
| 5 | December 18, 2024 14:45 | December 19, 2024 00:00 | 9h 15m | 1,791 | 1,417 |
| 6 | January 28, 2024 05:45 | January 28, 2024 09:45 | 4h | 1,750 | 1,677 |
| 7 | November 4, 2024 21:30 | November 5, 2024 04:00 | 6h 30m | 1,335 | 2,018 |
| 8 | April 29, 2024 04:30 | April 29, 2024 13:45 | 9h 15m | 1,118 | 4,037 |
| 9 | August 17, 2024 04:00 | August 17, 2024 17:15 | 13h 15m | 1,067 | 3,528 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 19:00 | August 6, 2024 21:45 | 2h 45m | 966 | 1,082 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 64 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Independence 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 |
| First Electric Coop Corp | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 2.44 | 3.2 hrs | 1.97 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 2.76 | 2.8 hrs | 2.68 |
| Farmers Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,306 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. Independence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Independence 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/independence-county