Power outage history
Ashley County Arkansas
20hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
9th most of 73 in Arkansas 3.0× 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 Ashley's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Ashley, 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 11, 2020 | Tornadoes | 4,249 | 46% | 5.4 d | 3.0 d | 260k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,090 | 55% | 3.7 d | 3.4 d | 215k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 5,501 | 60% | 3.4 d | 2.7 d | 199k |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 4,345 | 47% | 3.0 d | 2.1 d | 122k |
| Jun 10, 2022 | No storm report | 3,749 | 41% | 2.4 d | 28 h | 62k |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,847 | 42% | 41 h | 25 h | 50k |
| Apr 2, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,579 | 39% | 46 h | 21 h | 49k |
| Jan 2, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,177 | 35% | 2.0 d | 25 h | 36k |
| Apr 3, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,790 | 41% | 42 h | 41 h | 35k |
| Oct 10, 2020 | Hurricane Delta | 2,328 | 25% | 33 h | 20 h | 28k |
| Jul 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,876 | 31% | 25 h | 21 h | 26k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,793 | 19% | 39 h | 12 h | 23k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Tornadoes | 3,422 | 37% | 14 h | 10 h | 20k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,198 | 24% | 28 h | 3.0 h | 17k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | No storm report | 2,061 | 22% | 17 h | 5.5 h | 11k |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,498 | 16% | 8.5 h | 8.2 h | 10k |
| Mar 28, 2021 | No storm report | 1,784 | 19% | 12 h | 11 h | 9.7k |
| Jan 3, 2015 | No storm report | 3,693 | 40% | 2.8 h | 48 min | 9.5k |
| Aug 14, 2016 | No storm report | 3,567 | 39% | 2.5 h | 3.5 h | 8.9k |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,024 | 11% | 15 h | 15 h | 8.9k |
| Nov 17, 2020 | No storm report | 2,356 | 26% | 3.5 h | 2.5 h | 8.2k |
| Nov 16, 2020 | No storm report | 1,428 | 16% | 9.0 h | 8.8 h | 8.2k |
| Jun 26, 2022 | No storm report | 1,510 | 16% | 8.8 h | 5.2 h | 7.1k |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,186 | 13% | 16 h | 12 h | 6.9k |
| Jun 5, 2016 | No storm report | 1,470 | 16% | 12 h | 3.2 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 8, 2022 | No storm report | 3,077 | 33% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 6, 2023 | No storm report | 691 | 8% | 17 h | 6.2 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 25, 2015 | No storm report | 1,833 | 20% | 5.0 h | 2.8 h | 6.1k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | No storm report | 1,048 | 11% | 8.0 h | 48 min | 5.8k |
| Apr 3, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,240 | 13% | 5.5 h | 2.2 h | 5.5k |
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 Ashley from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 38%
- No storm on record 22%
- Tornadoes 21%
- Tropical storm 17%
- Flooding 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Ashley
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 |
| Ashley Chicot Elec Coop, Inc | AR | 461 | 199 | 2.25 | – | 56k |
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
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 9,203 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 →