Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Arkansas County Arkansas

35hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

2nd most of 73 in Arkansas 5.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 13, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 5.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 35h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.9days Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 6.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,409 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Arkansas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Arkansas, hours without power per customer

ArkansasUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 7.7 ’15 7.1 ’16 11 ’17 20 ’18 7.6 ’19 145 ’20 11 ’21 21 ’22 38 ’23 12 ’24 26 ’25 AR 8.0 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Apr 12, 2020 Thunderstorms 9,409 100% 6.9 d 5.9 d 1.2M
Jun 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 6,326 67% 4.9 d 2.8 d 206k
Apr 2, 2025 Tornadoes 5,206 55% 3.8 d 15 h 120k
Apr 23, 2020 No storm report 6,874 73% 23 h 2.8 h 82k
Jul 20, 2018 Thunderstorms 3,195 34% 47 h 37 h 74k
Feb 3, 2022 Winter storm 2,325 25% 2.7 d 2.2 d 61k
Feb 2, 2023 Ice storm 1,723 18% 2.7 d 14 h 60k
Apr 29, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,866 41% 2.8 d 47 h 54k
May 6, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,439 15% 2.1 d 48 h 32k
May 24, 2020 No storm report 2,449 26% 13 h 12 h 30k
May 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,046 32% 44 h 4.0 h 29k
May 24, 2024 Thunderstorms 971 10% 42 h 32 h 21k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +12h 90% by +38h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Arkansas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 66%
  • No storm on record 22%
  • Tornadoes 5.6%
  • Winter storm 2.7%
  • Ice storm 2.5%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Arkansas

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Arkansas territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Entergy Arkansas LLC Investor Owned 518 252 2.24 13.4 612k
First Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 646 222 2.54 12.9 97k
C & L Electric Coop Corp Cooperative – – – 13.8 20k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Arkansas

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 9,409 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →