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

Power outage history

Franklin County Arkansas

7.7hours

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

46th most of 73 in Arkansas 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record May 3, 2021 55% of customers out · 90% back in 38 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.7h / 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% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 44hours May 18, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 64% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 17 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,611 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Franklin'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 17 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Franklin, hours without power per customer

FranklinUS median countyArkansas average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 6.7 ’19 5.5 ’20 17 ’21 5.0 ’22 8.0 ’23 5.7 ’24 5.6 ’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
May 3, 2021 Thunderstorms 5,843 55% 42 h 38 h 141k
May 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,440 23% 44 h 28 h 38k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,996 19% 40 h 31 h 29k
Jan 24, 2023 Winter storm 848 8% 36 h 21 h 16k
Aug 17, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,822 17% 11 h 6.8 h 13k
Jul 2, 2020 Heat 1,456 14% 23 h 21 h 12k
Jul 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,467 14% 15 h 12 h 8.9k
Aug 27, 2019 Heat 1,121 11% 15 h 2.8 h 6.3k
Oct 22, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,452 14% 17 h 2.2 h 6.1k
Aug 18, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,294 12% 11 h 7.8 h 6.1k
Aug 6, 2020 No storm report 2,660 25% 6.2 h 3.5 h 5.8k
Jun 8, 2020 Tropical Storm Cristobal 1,928 18% 6.5 h 5.2 h 5.8k

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 +4h 90% by +12h

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

  • Thunderstorms 53%
  • No storm on record 36%
  • Heat 4.7%
  • Winter storm 3.2%
  • Tropical storm 1.2%
  • Flooding 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Franklin

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
Ozarks Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 676 50 1.68 13.7 74k
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co Investor Owned 217 155 1.63 11.7 59k
Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 322 250 2.85 14.1 55k

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 10,611 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 →