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

Power outage history

Howard County Arkansas

10hours

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

37th most of 73 in Arkansas 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 18, 2023 59% of customers out · 90% back in 2.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.3 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 Jun 18, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 21 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,087 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Howard'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 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Howard, hours without power per customer

HowardUS median countyArkansas average
0 5 10 15 20 25 14 ’15 3.4 ’16 ’17 ’19 2.8 ’20 5.6 ’21 7.4 ’22 21 ’23 9.4 ’24 16 ’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
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,615 59% 3.8 d 2.3 d 106k
May 10, 2015 Tornadoes 2,137 35% 2.6 d 39 h 69k
Jan 9, 2025 Winter storm 2,441 40% 39 h 13 h 30k
Apr 30, 2025 Thunderstorms 4,411 72% 28 h 3.8 h 15k
Jul 21, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,993 49% 27 h 2.0 h 11k
Jul 8, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 1,193 20% 39 h 13 h 9.8k
Jun 18, 2022 Heat 1,112 18% 23 h 19 h 7.8k
Jun 7, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,019 33% 18 h 14 h 7.7k
Apr 28, 2020 Thunderstorms 302 5% 39 h – 7.2k
Jul 26, 2024 No storm report 2,104 35% 3.2 h 1.2 h 6.8k
Sep 19, 2024 No storm report 796 13% 8.5 h 6.8 h 6.8k
Jul 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,279 21% 2.2 d 1.8 h 6.7k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +14h

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

  • Thunderstorms 49%
  • No storm on record 30%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Heat 6.7%
  • Tropical storm 3.0%
  • Tornadoes 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Howard

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
Rich Mountain Elec Coop, Inc AR – – – 11.1 111k
Southwestern Electric Power Co Investor Owned 428 212 1.84 12.1 110k
Southwest Arkansas E C C Cooperative 466 200 2.02 13.9 25k
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 6,087 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 →