Power outage history
Craighead County Arkansas
1.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
72nd most of 73 in Arkansas 81% below the national median
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 Craighead's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Craighead, hours without power per customer
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 2, 2025 | Tornadoes | 4,375 | 6% | 2.8 d | 2.9 d | 153k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Tornadoes | 5,528 | 7% | 2.1 d | 47 h | 134k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,489 | 6% | 46 h | 42 h | 93k |
| Jun 8, 2019 | No storm report | 1,654 | 2% | 21 h | – | 33k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,558 | 6% | 10 h | 12 h | 17k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | No storm report | 1,929 | 3% | 10 h | – | 17k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Winter storm | 1,692 | 2% | 11 h | – | 14k |
| Aug 5, 2015 | No storm report | 1,839 | 2% | 10 h | – | 13k |
| Apr 12, 2024 | No storm report | 1,670 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 11k |
| Apr 9, 2015 | No storm report | 2,891 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 9.9k |
| Mar 25, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,437 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 9.5k |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,645 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 8.8k |
| May 11, 2022 | No storm report | 1,499 | 2% | 5.2 h | – | 7.8k |
| Dec 8, 2018 | Ice storm | 1,675 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 7.4k |
| Nov 28, 2015 | No storm report | 1,492 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 6.7k |
| May 11, 2025 | No storm report | 1,496 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 6.4k |
| Dec 15, 2024 | No storm report | 1,518 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 6.2k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,659 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 6.0k |
| Jun 28, 2022 | No storm report | 1,411 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 6.0k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,438 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 5.9k |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,580 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 5.7k |
| Mar 21, 2017 | No storm report | 1,417 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 5.3k |
| Apr 5, 2017 | No storm report | 1,132 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 4.8k |
| Aug 22, 2019 | No storm report | 1,495 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jun 11, 2018 | No storm report | 1,460 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jul 11, 2015 | No storm report | 1,592 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 4.4k |
| Dec 7, 2023 | No storm report | 5,524 | 7% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 4.1k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,237 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 4.0k |
| May 8, 2016 | No storm report | 1,434 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jan 21, 2016 | Winter storm | 1,502 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 3.7k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Craighead from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 57%
- No storm on record 28%
- Thunderstorms 5.8%
- Winter storm 3.1%
- Windstorm 2.0%
- Heat 1.8%
- Ice storm 1.4%
- Tropical storm 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Craighead
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 |
| City Water and Light Plant | Municipal | – | – | – | 7.1 | 35k |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 500 | 193 | 3.31 | 12.5 | 25k |
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
- Poinsett 15 h
- Lawrence 11 h
- Mississippi 8.6 h
- Jackson 5.0 h
- Craighead (this county) 1.3 h
- Dunklin, MO 1.2 h
- Greene 0.7 h
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 75,696 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 →