Power outage history
Izard County Arkansas
12hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
32nd most of 73 in Arkansas 1.9× 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 Izard'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 35 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Izard, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2023 | Winter storm | 8,041 | 94% | 3.6 d | 2.2 d | 254k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 4,247 | 50% | 4.1 d | 2.7 d | 96k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,237 | 38% | 31 h | 14 h | 46k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | No storm report | 2,122 | 25% | 41 h | 28 h | 34k |
| Jun 11, 2021 | No storm report | 3,231 | 38% | 36 h | 2.5 h | 28k |
| Jan 18, 2016 | No storm report | 3,545 | 41% | 12 h | 9.5 h | 28k |
| Jul 6, 2022 | No storm report | 2,173 | 25% | 5.5 h | 5.8 h | 11k |
| Jun 23, 2017 | Tropical Storm Cindy | 2,579 | 30% | 27 h | 5.0 h | 11k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 2,606 | 30% | 4.8 h | 3.5 h | 11k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | No storm report | 2,298 | 27% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 11k |
| May 4, 2017 | No storm report | 3,033 | 35% | 9.5 h | 20 h | 11k |
| Jul 29, 2022 | No storm report | 2,184 | 25% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 9.1k |
| Aug 29, 2020 | No storm report | 935 | 11% | 13 h | 6.8 h | 9.1k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,007 | 23% | 7.8 h | 5.8 h | 6.6k |
| Jul 20, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,353 | 16% | 30 h | 12 min | 6.6k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | No storm report | 2,233 | 26% | 2.8 h | 1.2 h | 5.3k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 1,422 | 17% | 18 h | 30 min | 5.0k |
| Apr 20, 2024 | No storm report | 2,224 | 26% | 2.2 h | 8.5 h | 5.0k |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,591 | 30% | 12 h | 3.0 h | 5.0k |
| Jul 27, 2021 | No storm report | 615 | 7% | 8.0 h | 9.2 h | 4.9k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | No storm report | 672 | 8% | 8.0 h | 4.8 h | 4.6k |
| Mar 2, 2022 | No storm report | 3,525 | 41% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 4.6k |
| Oct 23, 2021 | No storm report | 645 | 8% | 6.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.2k |
| May 5, 2022 | No storm report | 612 | 7% | 6.5 h | 4.0 h | 4.0k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | Tornadoes | 690 | 8% | 23 h | 23 h | 4.0k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | No storm report | 363 | 4% | 22 h | – | 3.8k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 699 | 8% | 9.2 h | 1.0 h | 3.7k |
| Mar 22, 2022 | No storm report | 3,050 | 36% | 4.8 h | 30 min | 3.6k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Flooding | 271 | 3% | 25 h | – | 3.6k |
| Jul 1, 2020 | No storm report | 890 | 10% | 7.0 h | 5.0 h | 3.5k |
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 Izard from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Winter storm 34%
- Thunderstorms 8.0%
- Tropical storm 0.7%
- Windstorm 0.7%
- Tornadoes 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Izard
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 |
| North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 740 | 202 | 2.63 | 14.2 | 37k |
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
- Stone 14 h
- Sharp 13 h
- Fulton 13 h
- Izard (this county) 12 h
- Baxter 8.2 h
- Independence 6.3 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 8,572 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 →