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

Power outage history

Baxter County Arkansas

8.2hours

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

44th most of 73 in Arkansas 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 25, 2023 57% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.2h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.7days May 26, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 81% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 25 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 28,471 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 Baxter'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 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Baxter, hours without power per customer

BaxterUS median countyArkansas average
0 10 20 30 0.3 ’15 0.5 ’16 1.7 ’17 0.9 ’18 1.4 ’19 3.1 ’20 4.5 ’21 3.5 ’22 25 ’23 22 ’24 4.3 ’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
Jan 24, 2023 Winter storm 16,192 57% 3.5 d 22 h 610k
May 26, 2024 Tornadoes 25,906 91% 4.7 d 2.3 d 536k
Jun 11, 2021 Thunderstorms 7,368 26% 23 h 2.5 h 55k
Mar 19, 2025 No storm report 16,608 58% 2.5 h 1.8 h 26k
Jun 23, 2017 Tropical Storm Cindy 3,327 12% 19 h 15 h 23k
Jun 6, 2021 No storm report 2,949 10% 14 h 13 h 21k
Nov 14, 2020 Thunderstorms 4,359 15% 6.8 h 6.0 h 12k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 2,782 10% 8.8 h 12 min 12k
Jun 5, 2022 No storm report 2,441 9% 4.5 h 9.0 h 11k
Jun 7, 2019 No storm report 6,758 24% 2.8 h 5.2 h 10k
Dec 1, 2023 No storm report 2,456 9% 4.8 h 3.2 h 9.9k
Mar 14, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,860 14% 5.8 h 2.8 h 9.8k

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 +6h

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

  • Winter storm 38%
  • Tornadoes 33%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Thunderstorms 7.9%
  • Tropical storm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Baxter

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

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+

All Arkansas 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 28,471 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 →