Power outage history
Crittenden County Arkansas
5.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
59th 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 Crittenden's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Crittenden, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2022 | Ice storm | 7,850 | 31% | 4.8 d | 3.1 d | 250k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Tornadoes | 6,038 | 24% | 19 h | 17 h | 79k |
| May 22, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,570 | 18% | 2.1 d | 44 h | 65k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | No storm report | 6,055 | 24% | 25 h | 12 min | 23k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Winter storm | 794 | 3% | 31 h | – | 19k |
| Mar 4, 2015 | Winter storm | 1,142 | 4% | 20 h | – | 18k |
| Aug 5, 2015 | No storm report | 1,818 | 7% | 15 h | 6.0 h | 16k |
| May 30, 2016 | No storm report | 3,363 | 13% | 6.2 h | 2.0 h | 16k |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Heat | 3,959 | 15% | 5.8 h | 1.5 h | 16k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,561 | 10% | 12 h | 8.5 h | 15k |
| Jul 5, 2018 | Heat | 1,183 | 5% | 23 h | – | 15k |
| Aug 19, 2019 | Heat | 2,414 | 9% | 8.0 h | 7.5 h | 14k |
| Jun 20, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,697 | 11% | 13 h | 11 h | 14k |
| Apr 5, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,720 | 7% | 13 h | 30 min | 13k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | No storm report | 817 | 3% | 19 h | – | 13k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | No storm report | 2,152 | 8% | 15 h | 13 h | 12k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | Winter storm | 2,572 | 10% | 10 h | 4.2 h | 11k |
| Aug 26, 2023 | Heat | 1,300 | 5% | 14 h | 11 h | 11k |
| Feb 15, 2022 | No storm report | 1,803 | 7% | 5.8 h | 1.2 h | 10k |
| May 27, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,416 | 9% | 22 h | 4.0 h | 10k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | No storm report | 1,983 | 8% | 9.8 h | 7.5 h | 9.7k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Heat | 1,013 | 4% | 28 h | – | 9.5k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 797 | 3% | 13 h | – | 8.9k |
| Jun 27, 2016 | No storm report | 2,080 | 8% | 5.2 h | 4.8 h | 8.6k |
| Jan 9, 2022 | No storm report | 1,798 | 7% | 4.8 h | 1.2 h | 8.5k |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,475 | 6% | 15 h | 17 h | 8.5k |
| May 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 620 | 2% | 17 h | – | 8.2k |
| Jul 23, 2017 | Heat | 1,716 | 7% | 6.2 h | 5.8 h | 7.5k |
| Aug 7, 2015 | No storm report | 711 | 3% | 11 h | – | 6.7k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | No storm report | 1,452 | 6% | 5.5 h | 3.8 h | 6.5k |
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 Crittenden from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 31%
- Ice storm 27%
- Thunderstorms 16%
- Heat 11%
- Tornadoes 8.5%
- Winter storm 5.6%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Crittenden
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 |
| Craighead Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 500 | 193 | 3.31 | 12.5 | 25k |
| City of West Memphis | Municipal | – | – | – | 8.4 | 10k |
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
- Tunica, MS 17 h
- Cross 16 h
- Poinsett 15 h
- Shelby, TN 15 h
- St. Francis 13 h
- Lee 12 h
- Mississippi 8.6 h
- Tipton, TN 8.5 h
- Crittenden (this county) 5.8 h
- DeSoto, MS 3.0 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 25,574 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 →