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

Power outage history

Marion County Arkansas

17hours

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

16th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.6× the national median

Worst outage on record May 26, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 2.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.6 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 3.7days Jan 24, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 46 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,270 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 Marion'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 46 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Marion, hours without power per customer

MarionUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 5.1 ’15 8.4 ’16 8.6 ’17 8.0 ’18 5.9 ’19 6.7 ’20 6.1 ’21 18 ’22 38 ’23 46 ’24 8.2 ’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
May 26, 2024 Tornadoes 8,270 100% 3.6 d 2.5 d 281k
Jan 24, 2023 Winter storm 7,569 92% 3.7 d 2.3 d 227k
Jan 15, 2022 Winter storm 3,801 46% 2.1 d 25 h 93k
Mar 14, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,469 30% 43 h 39 h 28k
Jul 31, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,506 42% 15 h 3.2 h 23k
Mar 27, 2018 No storm report 1,963 24% 12 h 12 h 20k
Apr 29, 2017 No storm report 2,042 25% 28 h 5.5 h 19k
Nov 24, 2022 No storm report 2,075 25% 5.5 h 30 min 11k
Feb 7, 2019 Tornadoes 1,142 14% 29 h 17 h 11k
Aug 9, 2023 No storm report 1,635 20% 17 h 2.0 h 10k
Mar 19, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,961 24% 22 h 4.0 h 10k
Jan 10, 2020 Thunderstorms 529 6% 25 h 14 h 9.9k

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

  • Winter storm 33%
  • Tornadoes 29%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Thunderstorms 9.2%
  • Flooding 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Marion

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
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.

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 8,270 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 →