Power outage history
Cross County Arkansas
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
20th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.4× 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 Cross'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 46 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Cross, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2023 | Tornadoes | 7,125 | 90% | 6.2 d | 3.9 d | 301k |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Ice storm | 7,940 | 100% | 4.6 d | 2.3 d | 169k |
| May 22, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,499 | 82% | 2.2 d | 44 h | 126k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,964 | 63% | 19 h | 5.5 h | 30k |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,168 | 27% | 42 h | 40 h | 25k |
| Apr 5, 2025 | Tornadoes | 1,486 | 19% | 42 h | 24 h | 19k |
| Jun 2, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,521 | 19% | 45 h | 20 h | 18k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 669 | 8% | 21 h | 11 h | 7.8k |
| Apr 23, 2016 | No storm report | 4,038 | 51% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 6.6k |
| Jul 31, 2022 | No storm report | 906 | 11% | 7.8 h | 7.8 h | 6.2k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Winter storm | 646 | 8% | 38 h | 20 h | 6.2k |
| Jun 29, 2018 | Heat | 708 | 9% | 14 h | 11 h | 6.2k |
| Jul 12, 2024 | No storm report | 1,434 | 18% | 6.0 h | 5.8 h | 5.6k |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 555 | 7% | 17 h | 15 h | 5.4k |
| May 31, 2020 | No storm report | 3,935 | 50% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 4.8k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 984 | 12% | 9.8 h | 3.8 h | 4.6k |
| Jun 30, 2021 | No storm report | 799 | 10% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 4.6k |
| Mar 31, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,033 | 13% | 6.8 h | 5.5 h | 3.9k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 511 | 6% | 7.8 h | 8.2 h | 3.8k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | No storm report | 308 | 4% | 24 h | – | 3.5k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 916 | 12% | 11 h | 4.5 h | 3.4k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | No storm report | 391 | 5% | 8.8 h | – | 3.3k |
| May 20, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,037 | 13% | 5.2 h | 3.0 h | 3.3k |
| Dec 9, 2018 | Winter storm | 469 | 6% | 13 h | 18 h | 3.0k |
| Apr 13, 2022 | No storm report | 1,126 | 14% | 8.2 h | 5.5 h | 2.9k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,514 | 44% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.8k |
| May 3, 2022 | No storm report | 732 | 9% | 5.2 h | 1.0 h | 2.8k |
| Nov 11, 2018 | No storm report | 1,098 | 14% | 2.5 h | 10 h | 2.7k |
| Jan 10, 2016 | No storm report | 485 | 6% | 7.5 h | 6.5 h | 2.7k |
| Sep 17, 2017 | No storm report | 1,069 | 13% | 3.2 h | 1.2 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 Cross from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 36%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- No storm on record 19%
- Ice storm 19%
- Heat 2.0%
- Winter storm 1.3%
- Tropical storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Cross
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 |
| Woodruff Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 45 | 45 | 0.42 | 12.5 | 12k |
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
- Cross (this county) 16 h
- Poinsett 15 h
- St. Francis 13 h
- Woodruff 13 h
- Crittenden 5.8 h
- Jackson 5.0 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 7,940 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 →