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2025 Howard County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Howard County, AR went without power for an average of 15.7 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (Arkansas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 474th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2025 19:45 | May 2, 2025 00:30 | 1d 4h | 4,411 | 15K |
| 2 | January 10, 2025 01:00 | January 12, 2025 23:15 | 2d 22h | 2,441 | 31K |
| 3 | April 4, 2025 23:45 | April 6, 2025 13:00 | 1d 13h | 2,279 | 5,735 |
| 4 | August 20, 2025 21:15 | August 21, 2025 01:30 | 4h 15m | 2,095 | 6,269 |
| 5 | June 8, 2025 02:30 | June 8, 2025 22:30 | 20h | 2,019 | 7,735 |
| 6 | May 6, 2025 20:15 | May 7, 2025 11:15 | 15h | 978 | 4,425 |
| 7 | March 4, 2025 23:30 | March 6, 2025 13:45 | 1d 14h | 874 | 2,224 |
| 8 | April 21, 2025 10:00 | April 21, 2025 11:00 | 1h | 662 | 660 |
| 9 | April 8, 2025 14:45 | April 8, 2025 20:00 | 5h 15m | 576 | 165 |
| 10 | February 16, 2025 10:30 | February 16, 2025 11:45 | 1h 15m | 561 | 701 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 28 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 Howard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/arkansas/howard-county