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

Power outage history

Monroe County Arkansas

22hours

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

8th most of 73 in Arkansas 3.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 24, 2022 76% of customers out · 90% back in 3.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 22h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 13.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.4days Feb 24, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 41 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,733 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 Monroe'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 41 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Monroe, hours without power per customer

MonroeUS median countyArkansas average
0 10 20 30 40 50 4.2 ’15 5.8 ’16 14 ’17 23 ’18 8.4 ’19 28 ’20 8.3 ’21 41 ’22 28 ’23 16 ’24 26 ’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
Feb 24, 2022 No storm report 2,825 76% 5.4 d 3.2 d 102k
Jul 20, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,896 51% 2.9 d 2.4 d 53k
Apr 12, 2020 Flooding 2,191 59% 4.9 d 2.6 d 48k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 1,045 28% 3.7 d 2.6 d 37k
Apr 26, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,124 57% 29 h 26 h 17k
May 16, 2025 Flooding 1,166 31% 25 h 17 h 15k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,170 31% 2.5 d 8.0 h 14k
Jun 19, 2019 Flooding 913 24% 21 h 3.5 h 10k
Feb 2, 2023 Flooding 907 24% 39 h 21 h 9.9k
Apr 2, 2025 No storm report 568 15% 37 h 20 h 9.4k
Jun 17, 2018 No storm report 1,494 40% 6.2 h 6.8 h 9.3k
Jun 13, 2025 Flooding 2,566 69% 3.0 h 2.8 h 7.2k

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

  • No storm on record 53%
  • Flooding 30%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Tropical storm 1.5%
  • Winter storm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Monroe

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
First Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 646 222 2.54 12.9 97k
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

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 3,733 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 →