Power outage history
Saline County Arkansas
7.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
48th most of 73 in Arkansas close to 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 Saline's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Saline, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2025 | Flooding | 23,065 | 46% | 3.6 d | 2.5 d | 654k |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 17,295 | 35% | 2.1 d | 20 h | 207k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 13,818 | 28% | 43 h | 22 h | 182k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 10,537 | 21% | 21 h | 14 h | 96k |
| Jul 21, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 7,282 | 15% | 18 h | 16 h | 58k |
| May 24, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,026 | 12% | 20 h | 15 h | 55k |
| Dec 19, 2022 | No storm report | 4,119 | 8% | 11 h | 8.8 h | 43k |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,526 | 5% | 22 h | 22 h | 42k |
| Jul 18, 2022 | No storm report | 7,539 | 15% | 11 h | 5.5 h | 39k |
| Mar 24, 2017 | Tornadoes | 2,566 | 5% | 18 h | 22 h | 36k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,976 | 8% | 24 h | 35 h | 34k |
| Jan 16, 2024 | No storm report | 6,460 | 13% | 12 h | 4.2 h | 33k |
| Jul 23, 2016 | Flooding | 9,129 | 18% | 8.8 h | 5.2 h | 32k |
| Jul 8, 2017 | No storm report | 4,149 | 8% | 15 h | 30 min | 28k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,037 | 8% | 18 h | 17 h | 27k |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,258 | 5% | 12 h | – | 25k |
| Apr 21, 2023 | Flooding | 4,071 | 8% | 7.5 h | 3.5 h | 21k |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Tornadoes | 1,474 | 3% | 15 h | – | 21k |
| Apr 10, 2025 | No storm report | 1,893 | 4% | 11 h | – | 21k |
| Oct 14, 2016 | No storm report | 3,173 | 6% | 6.5 h | 2.5 h | 20k |
| Jul 28, 2019 | No storm report | 3,085 | 6% | 13 h | 17 h | 19k |
| May 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,219 | 4% | 18 h | – | 19k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,878 | 8% | 8.0 h | 6.8 h | 19k |
| Dec 28, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,474 | 5% | 7.8 h | – | 17k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | No storm report | 3,959 | 8% | 7.5 h | 6.0 h | 16k |
| Jun 3, 2022 | No storm report | 3,322 | 7% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 16k |
| May 25, 2020 | No storm report | 8,471 | 17% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 15k |
| Sep 9, 2019 | No storm report | 2,654 | 5% | 10 h | 9.8 h | 15k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 2,680 | 5% | 7.2 h | 3.5 h | 13k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | No storm report | 2,454 | 5% | 8.5 h | – | 13k |
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 Saline from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 39%
- Flooding 33%
- Thunderstorms 24%
- Tornadoes 1.8%
- Tropical storm 1.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Saline
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 |
| City of Benton | Municipal | – | – | – | 10.4 | 13k |
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
- Grant 17 h
- Hot Spring 16 h
- Garland 9.2 h
- Pulaski 8.4 h
- Saline (this county) 7.4 h
- Perry 6.9 h
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 49,735 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 →