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

Power outage history

Newton County Arkansas

10hours

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

38th most of 73 in Arkansas 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 25, 2023 98% of customers out · 90% back in 32 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.7 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 2.9days Jan 24, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 28 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,813 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 Newton'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 28 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Newton, hours without power per customer

NewtonUS median countyArkansas average
0 10 20 30 40 ’15 ’16 2.5 ’17 ’18 5.2 ’19 4.7 ’20 4.5 ’21 11 ’22 28 ’23 3.9 ’24 14 ’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
Jan 24, 2023 Winter storm 3,752 98% 2.9 d 32 h 82k
May 8, 2025 No storm report 3,813 100% 5.0 h 5.0 h 19k
May 2, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,813 100% 18 h 3.2 h 16k
Jan 15, 2022 No storm report 743 19% 30 h 8.0 h 9.3k
Nov 15, 2025 No storm report 882 23% 7.5 h 6.8 h 6.6k
Apr 19, 2025 No storm report 192 5% 39 h 37 h 6.4k
Oct 6, 2024 No storm report 2,013 53% 2.8 h 12 h 4.8k
May 10, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,492 39% 4.5 h 4.8 h 4.1k
Aug 28, 2020 Hurricane Laura 3,607 95% 1.2 h 1.0 h 4.1k
Nov 20, 2021 No storm report 3,813 100% 1.0 h 1.0 h 3.8k
Nov 16, 2023 No storm report 850 22% 5.2 h 5.0 h 3.7k
Jan 22, 2020 No storm report 157 4% 22 h – 3.1k

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 +6h

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

  • No storm on record 53%
  • Winter storm 34%
  • Thunderstorms 9.9%
  • Tropical storm 1.8%
  • Flooding 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Newton

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
Carroll Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 224 142 2.43 13.4 105k
Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 322 250 2.85 14.1 55k
Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 317 241 1.95 16.6 19k

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 3,813 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 →