Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Cleveland County Arkansas

17hours

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

17th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 13, 2020 39% of customers out · 90% back in 5.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.5 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 73% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 2.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,401 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 Cleveland'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 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Cleveland, hours without power per customer

ClevelandUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 80 9.6 ’15 11 ’16 4.3 ’17 1.4 ’18 4.9 ’19 56 ’20 5.2 ’21 11 ’22 44 ’23 5.7 ’24 5.5 ’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 1,342 39% 6.9 d 5.5 d 157k
Feb 1, 2023 Ice storm 1,363 40% 6.0 d 4.5 d 119k
Jul 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,176 35% 2.1 d 44 h 32k
Feb 16, 2015 Ice storm 1,392 41% 36 h 14 h 25k
Oct 29, 2022 No storm report 422 12% 37 h 40 h 15k
Jun 18, 2023 No storm report 763 22% 2.7 d 4.0 h 12k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 443 13% 2.8 d 1.5 h 12k
Jun 19, 2019 No storm report 383 11% 38 h 24 h 7.5k
Mar 24, 2017 No storm report 719 21% 21 h 18 h 7.2k
Mar 31, 2021 No storm report 407 12% 11 h 11 h 4.3k
Feb 3, 2022 Winter storm 704 21% 14 h 2.0 h 4.1k
Apr 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 266 8% 20 h 16 h 3.9k

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 +24h

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

  • Thunderstorms 41%
  • Ice storm 28%
  • No storm on record 27%
  • Tropical storm 3.3%
  • Winter storm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Cleveland

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
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+

All Arkansas counties →

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 3,401 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 →