Power outage history
Faulkner County Arkansas
2.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
68th most of 73 in Arkansas 57% 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 Faulkner's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Faulkner, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,271 | 8% | 41 h | 40 h | 101k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 4,343 | 7% | 18 h | 12 h | 45k |
| Jul 24, 2023 | No storm report | 7,245 | 11% | 7.8 h | 7.5 h | 44k |
| Mar 10, 2022 | No storm report | 3,416 | 5% | 10 h | 12 min | 35k |
| May 23, 2024 | No storm report | 8,108 | 13% | 6.0 h | 5.0 h | 30k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,494 | 7% | 11 h | 9.8 h | 27k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | Flooding | 7,775 | 12% | 13 h | 10 h | 25k |
| May 25, 2015 | No storm report | 1,714 | 3% | 15 h | – | 20k |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,984 | 3% | 14 h | – | 20k |
| Aug 24, 2022 | No storm report | 3,421 | 5% | 8.8 h | 9.5 h | 18k |
| Sep 2, 2018 | No storm report | 1,609 | 3% | 15 h | – | 17k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,440 | 2% | 12 h | – | 16k |
| Jan 8, 2015 | No storm report | 3,950 | 6% | 7.5 h | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Jul 9, 2016 | No storm report | 2,158 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 13k |
| May 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,516 | 6% | 7.0 h | 1.8 h | 13k |
| Feb 1, 2019 | No storm report | 3,514 | 6% | 6.2 h | 2.8 h | 12k |
| Apr 25, 2019 | No storm report | 1,388 | 2% | 11 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | No storm report | 1,381 | 2% | 9.5 h | – | 11k |
| Sep 26, 2025 | No storm report | 1,702 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 11k |
| Jul 4, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,432 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 10k |
| Jul 31, 2016 | No storm report | 6,101 | 10% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 10k |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Flooding | 2,774 | 4% | 9.5 h | – | 10k |
| Jun 26, 2015 | Flooding | 3,289 | 5% | 4.8 h | 5.0 h | 9.9k |
| Aug 13, 2020 | No storm report | 2,545 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 9.3k |
| Aug 7, 2016 | No storm report | 2,161 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 9.0k |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,719 | 6% | 5.0 h | 4.5 h | 9.0k |
| Feb 18, 2015 | No storm report | 1,413 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 8.4k |
| Jul 22, 2016 | No storm report | 1,371 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 8.1k |
| May 7, 2016 | No storm report | 1,846 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 7.8k |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,290 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 7.7k |
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 Faulkner from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 66%
- Thunderstorms 29%
- Flooding 2.9%
- Tropical storm 0.7%
- Windstorm 0.6%
- Winter storm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Faulkner
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 |
| Conway Corporation | Municipal | 57 | 57 | 0.70 | 9.5 | 31k |
| Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 317 | 241 | 1.95 | 16.6 | 19k |
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.
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 63,679 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 →