Power Out Map
– 0% of Chicot out 0 customers out in Arkansas

Power outage history

Chicot County Arkansas

23hours

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

7th most of 73 in Arkansas 3.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 11, 2020 92% of customers out · 90% back in 4.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 23h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.4 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 7.2days Jan 11, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 65% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 3.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,703 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 Chicot's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Chicot, hours without power per customer

ChicotUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 6.1 ’15 15 ’16 11 ’17 17 ’18 19 ’19 71 ’20 9.1 ’21 24 ’22 21 ’23 11 ’24 12 ’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
Jan 11, 2020 Tornadoes 4,313 92% 7.2 d 4.0 d 209k
Apr 12, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,610 56% 2.8 d 2.3 d 79k
Jun 19, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,231 69% 2.9 d 45 h 46k
Apr 2, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,854 61% 43 h 25 h 26k
May 5, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,112 24% 29 h 25 h 24k
Jul 20, 2022 No storm report 2,665 57% 8.8 h 8.8 h 22k
Mar 30, 2016 Tornadoes 1,565 33% 18 h 14 h 21k
Jul 15, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,540 33% 25 h 21 h 21k
Apr 3, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,916 41% 27 h 21 h 17k
Jun 25, 2022 No storm report 980 21% 2.1 d 19 h 15k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 593 13% 33 h 20 h 14k
Jan 2, 2023 Tornadoes 672 14% 48 h 47 h 14k

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 +14h 90% by +26h

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 Chicot from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 35%
  • Thunderstorms 31%
  • Tornadoes 28%
  • Tropical storm 4.5%
  • Flooding 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Chicot

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
Ashley Chicot Elec Coop, Inc AR 461 199 2.25 – 56k

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 4,703 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 →