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

Power outage history

Poinsett County Arkansas

15hours

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

24th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 25, 2023 50% of customers out · 90% back in 2.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.3days Jun 25, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 77% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 37 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,154 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 Poinsett's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 37 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Poinsett, hours without power per customer

PoinsettUS median countyArkansas average
0 10 20 30 40 50 4.3 ’15 8.7 ’16 19 ’17 9.3 ’18 4.6 ’19 5.1 ’20 19 ’21 27 ’22 37 ’23 8.5 ’24 9.2 ’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
Jun 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,070 50% 5.3 d 2.3 d 285k
Dec 10, 2021 Tornadoes 5,222 51% 3.1 d 2.8 d 146k
Feb 2, 2022 Winter storm 9,165 90% 38 h 23 h 141k
Apr 29, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,754 27% 3.6 d 31 h 46k
Feb 23, 2022 Ice storm 1,429 14% 3.8 d 2.2 d 44k
Apr 26, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,605 26% 45 h 42 h 38k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,298 32% 43 h 13 h 33k
May 27, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,255 32% 42 h 20 h 32k
Apr 30, 2016 Windstorm 4,356 43% 12 h 10 h 26k
Dec 8, 2018 Ice storm 5,812 57% 23 h 48 min 24k
Apr 2, 2025 Tornadoes 1,767 17% 25 h 17 h 24k
Jun 2, 2018 Thunderstorms 787 8% 46 h 45 h 20k

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 +10h 90% by +24h

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

  • Thunderstorms 35%
  • No storm on record 23%
  • Tornadoes 18%
  • Winter storm 14%
  • Ice storm 6.3%
  • Heat 2.1%
  • Tropical storm 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Poinsett

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
Farmers Electric Coop Corp AR – – – – 48k
Craighead Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 500 193 3.31 12.5 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+

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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 10,154 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 →