Power outage history
Scott County Arkansas
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
35th most of 73 in Arkansas 1.7× 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 Scott's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Scott, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2023 | Winter storm | 4,093 | 82% | 2.8 d | 13 h | 73k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,884 | 98% | 12 h | 5.5 h | 48k |
| May 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,159 | 43% | 21 h | 17 h | 35k |
| Dec 24, 2023 | No storm report | 4,925 | 99% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 24k |
| Oct 27, 2019 | No storm report | 3,246 | 65% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 16k |
| Sep 22, 2019 | No storm report | 3,243 | 65% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 11k |
| Apr 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,781 | 36% | 12 h | 6.0 h | 9.5k |
| Apr 26, 2017 | No storm report | 296 | 6% | 2.2 d | 2.2 d | 7.2k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | No storm report | 1,414 | 28% | 9.5 h | 7.2 h | 7.1k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | No storm report | 1,004 | 20% | 6.2 h | 1.5 h | 6.0k |
| Aug 17, 2024 | No storm report | 604 | 12% | 20 h | 18 h | 5.9k |
| Jun 6, 2024 | No storm report | 3,651 | 74% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 5.5k |
| May 3, 2021 | No storm report | 1,702 | 34% | 9.8 h | 8.0 h | 5.2k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | No storm report | 417 | 8% | 28 h | 8.2 h | 4.6k |
| Jun 18, 2022 | No storm report | 1,365 | 27% | 13 h | 3.0 h | 4.6k |
| May 11, 2015 | No storm report | 125 | 3% | 36 h | – | 4.4k |
| Feb 7, 2019 | No storm report | 821 | 17% | 5.2 h | 3.5 h | 4.1k |
| May 18, 2025 | No storm report | 1,204 | 24% | 6.0 h | 1.8 h | 4.1k |
| Nov 24, 2020 | No storm report | 294 | 6% | 17 h | 8.2 h | 4.0k |
| Jun 26, 2024 | No storm report | 1,563 | 31% | 10 h | 7.8 h | 3.7k |
| May 4, 2022 | No storm report | 950 | 19% | 6.0 h | 5.0 h | 3.4k |
| Apr 20, 2024 | No storm report | 1,445 | 29% | 2.5 h | 11 h | 3.3k |
| Jun 12, 2016 | No storm report | 1,628 | 33% | 2.0 h | 7.0 h | 3.3k |
| Feb 24, 2021 | No storm report | 3,249 | 65% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 3.2k |
| May 19, 2025 | No storm report | 435 | 9% | 10 h | 8.2 h | 3.2k |
| May 2, 2022 | No storm report | 959 | 19% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 2.9k |
| Feb 10, 2019 | No storm report | 977 | 20% | 3.5 h | 10 h | 2.8k |
| Jan 1, 2022 | Flooding | 935 | 19% | 3.0 h | 3.2 h | 2.7k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | No storm report | 129 | 3% | 21 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | Flooding | 337 | 7% | 15 h | 1.0 h | 2.5k |
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 Scott from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 62%
- Winter storm 19%
- Thunderstorms 16%
- Flooding 2.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Scott
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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 428 | 212 | 1.84 | 12.1 | 110k |
| Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co | Investor Owned | 217 | 155 | 1.63 | 11.7 | 59k |
| Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp | Cooperative | 322 | 250 | 2.85 | 14.1 | 55k |
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
- Montgomery 19 h
- Yell 14 h
- Scott (this county) 11 h
- Le Flore, OK 7.8 h
- Logan 6.5 h
- Sebastian 4.0 h
- Polk 1.5 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 4,965 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 →