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2024 Polk County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, AR went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Arkansas average 8.5 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2574th 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 Polk 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 17, 2024 05:45 | August 17, 2024 07:45 | 2h | 1,401 | 1,410 |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 18:15 | April 3, 2024 21:15 | 3h | 927 | 2,471 |
| 3 | September 9, 2024 13:45 | September 9, 2024 18:00 | 4h 15m | 791 | 807 |
| 4 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 24, 2024 20:00 | 10h 45m | 738 | 2,863 |
| 5 | June 26, 2024 15:30 | June 27, 2024 22:30 | 1d 7h | 476 | 1,390 |
| 6 | May 3, 2024 09:30 | May 3, 2024 11:30 | 2h | 298 | 389 |
| 7 | May 29, 2024 06:15 | May 29, 2024 08:30 | 2h 15m | 285 | 576 |
| 8 | November 18, 2024 22:00 | November 19, 2024 01:30 | 3h 30m | 192 | 112 |
| 9 | July 8, 2024 16:15 | July 8, 2024 21:00 | 4h 45m | 135 | 331 |
| 10 | July 12, 2024 15:00 | July 12, 2024 16:30 | 1h 30m | 126 | 109 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 12 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 Polk 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,572 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county