Power Out Map
– 0% of Little River out 0 customers out in Arkansas

Power outage history

Little River County Arkansas

26hours

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

4th most of 73 in Arkansas 4.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 10, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 44 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 26h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.5 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 2.8days Jun 18, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 60% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,623 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 Little River'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 2.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Little River, hours without power per customer

Little RiverUS median countyArkansas average
0 20 40 60 80 7.6 ’15 5.6 ’16 5.1 ’17 6.3 ’18 12 ’19 20 ’20 60 ’21 14 ’22 28 ’23 31 ’24 39 ’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 9, 2021 Thunderstorms 3,623 100% 2.8 d 44 h 119k
Jan 9, 2025 Winter storm 3,623 100% 2.0 d 34 h 92k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,255 62% 2.8 d 2.2 d 55k
Apr 24, 2021 Thunderstorms 2,391 66% 21 h 13 h 44k
Jun 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,623 100% 30 h 5.2 h 26k
Jun 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,078 57% 22 h 6.5 h 13k
Sep 11, 2024 No storm report 3,043 84% 4.0 h 4.0 h 12k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 743 21% 22 h 19 h 11k
May 25, 2015 Flooding 1,384 38% 2.1 d 1.8 h 10.0k
Jun 6, 2020 No storm report 1,216 34% 20 h 17 h 10.0k
Aug 7, 2016 Heat 3,052 84% 4.2 h 1.2 h 9.2k
Jun 23, 2019 No storm report 354 10% 41 h 35 h 9.0k

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 +8h 90% by +18h

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

  • Thunderstorms 42%
  • No storm on record 40%
  • Winter storm 14%
  • Heat 2.3%
  • Tropical storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Little River

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
Southwestern Electric Power Co Investor Owned 428 212 1.84 12.1 110k
Southwest Arkansas E C C Cooperative 466 200 2.02 13.9 25k

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 3,623 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 →