– 0% of Bradley out 0 customers out in Arkansas

Power outage history

Bradley County Arkansas

23hours

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

6th most of 73 in Arkansas 3.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 13, 2020 77% of customers out · 90% back in 5.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 23h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.5 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 6.0days Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 22% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 4.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,463 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 Bradley'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bradley, hours without power per customer

BradleyUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 4.8 ’15 11 ’16 7.4 ’17 3.2 ’18 15 ’19 101 ’20 18 ’21 9.2 ’22 31 ’23 6.7 ’24 3.6 ’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
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 4,182 77% 6.0 d 5.2 d 494k
Feb 2, 2023 Ice storm 4,036 74% 2.5 d 31 h 59k
Apr 10, 2021 Thunderstorms 4,161 76% 44 h 17 h 57k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 4,236 78% 23 h 5.8 h 56k
Jul 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,529 46% 2.1 d 45 h 41k
Jun 19, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,749 50% 43 h 11 h 36k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 1,239 23% 2.2 d 29 h 21k
Jun 10, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,608 29% 32 h 30 h 20k
Jan 12, 2024 No storm report 1,062 19% 36 h 32 h 19k
Jun 18, 2023 No storm report 1,089 20% 32 h 7.2 h 17k
Apr 30, 2017 No storm report 1,446 26% 32 h 9.8 h 16k
Jan 11, 2020 No storm report 461 8% 2.5 d 2.2 d 11k

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 +30h

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

  • No storm on record 78%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Ice storm 6.2%
  • Tropical storm 2.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bradley

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
C & L Electric Coop Corp Cooperative – – – 13.8 20k
Ouachita Electric Coop Corp Cooperative – – – 13.5 8.4k

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 5,463 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 →