Power Out Map
– 0% of Hot Spring out 0 customers out in Arkansas

Power outage history

Hot Spring County Arkansas

16hours

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

21st most of 73 in Arkansas 2.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 12, 2020 83% of customers out · 90% back in 3.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.3 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 4.9days Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 47 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 15,029 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 Hot Spring'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 47 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hot Spring, hours without power per customer

Hot SpringUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 9.3 ’15 26 ’16 7.5 ’17 5.7 ’18 7.6 ’19 47 ’20 7.6 ’21 12 ’22 9.1 ’23 12 ’24 24 ’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 12,489 83% 4.9 d 3.8 d 608k
Jul 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 7,582 50% 3.7 d 2.8 d 278k
Apr 4, 2025 Flooding 9,137 61% 3.8 d 2.1 d 206k
May 24, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,175 28% 39 h 3.8 h 53k
Apr 29, 2017 Thunderstorms 5,187 35% 35 h 10 h 45k
May 15, 2022 No storm report 2,242 15% 22 h 6.2 h 27k
Apr 13, 2019 No storm report 2,688 18% 31 h 7.5 h 26k
Mar 24, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,816 32% 10 h 9.2 h 20k
Feb 16, 2015 Ice storm 2,504 17% 36 h 20 h 18k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 667 4% 44 h – 18k
Jun 18, 2023 No storm report 2,738 18% 17 h 7.5 h 16k
Jun 26, 2016 No storm report 2,451 16% 13 h 12 h 16k

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 +4h 90% by +16h

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

  • Thunderstorms 51%
  • No storm on record 33%
  • Flooding 13%
  • Tropical storm 1.3%
  • Winter storm 0.9%
  • Tornadoes 0.7%
  • Ice storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hot Spring

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
South Central Ark El Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 16.1 9.4k

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 15,029 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 →