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

Power outage history

Drew County Arkansas

19hours

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

11th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 12, 2020 78% of customers out · 90% back in 5.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 19h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.9 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 6.1days Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 76% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 3.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,073 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 Drew'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 3.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Drew, hours without power per customer

DrewUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 11 ’15 9.5 ’16 4.0 ’17 3.6 ’18 17 ’19 72 ’20 7.8 ’21 11 ’22 31 ’23 6.3 ’24 4.8 ’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 Thunderstorms 7,043 78% 6.1 d 5.8 d 514k
Feb 2, 2023 Ice storm 7,030 77% 3.4 d 2.0 d 161k
Jun 19, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,150 35% 2.7 d 22 h 94k
Feb 16, 2015 Winter storm 3,438 38% 33 h 22 h 74k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,346 15% 3.5 d 3.2 d 60k
Jul 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,761 41% 2.0 d 29 h 54k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 1,279 14% 3.1 d 2.7 d 36k
Sep 6, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,781 31% 22 h 16 h 31k
Jun 23, 2022 No storm report 3,479 38% 6.5 h 5.8 h 21k
Feb 24, 2019 No storm report 2,006 22% 13 h 12 h 16k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 1,795 20% 23 h 3.0 h 13k
Jan 2, 2023 No storm report 1,584 17% 23 h 17 h 13k

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 +6h 90% by +22h

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

  • Thunderstorms 58%
  • No storm on record 24%
  • Ice storm 13%
  • Tropical storm 4.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Drew

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
C & L Electric Coop Corp Cooperative – – – 13.8 20k

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+

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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 9,073 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 →