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

Power outage history

Fulton County Arkansas

13hours

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

2.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 25, 2023 84% of customers out · 90% back in 3.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.8days Jan 24, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 65% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 31 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,300 ORNL customer model · 4 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 Fulton'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fulton, hours without power per customer

FultonUS median countyArkansas average
0 5 10 15 20 25 1.3 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 5.9 ’22 31 ’23 8.5 ’24 7.0 ’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 24, 2023 Winter storm 6,151 84% 3.8 d 3.2 h 191k
May 26, 2024 Tornadoes 5,313 73% 32 h 14 h 36k
May 8, 2020 No storm report 779 11% 19 h 17 h 14k
May 27, 2017 Thunderstorms 787 11% 14 h 1.8 h 10k
May 20, 2022 No storm report 797 11% 13 h 18 h 10k
Jul 29, 2023 No storm report 1,909 26% 10 h 7.8 h 8.7k
Apr 8, 2022 No storm report 797 11% 9.2 h 9.5 h 7.2k
Sep 4, 2015 No storm report 797 11% 8.5 h 15 h 6.8k
Apr 4, 2025 Flooding 864 12% 42 h 30 min 6.1k
Apr 9, 2021 Thunderstorms 791 11% 7.2 h 8.2 h 5.5k
Jul 7, 2016 No storm report 783 11% 7.0 h 8.5 h 5.5k
Nov 17, 2025 No storm report 2,130 29% 2.8 h 7.8 h 5.2k

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 +8h 90% by +8h

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

  • Winter storm 51%
  • No storm on record 35%
  • Tornadoes 9.5%
  • Thunderstorms 2.2%
  • Flooding 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fulton

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
North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 740 202 2.63 14.2 37k

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 7,300 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 →