Power outage history
Pope County Arkansas
8.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
42nd most of 73 in Arkansas 1.3× 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 Pope'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 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Pope, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 14,094 | 44% | 3.4 d | 2.6 d | 404k |
| Jul 21, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 9,692 | 30% | 40 h | 32 h | 131k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,326 | 17% | 2.2 d | 45 h | 82k |
| May 28, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,564 | 17% | 37 h | 32 h | 70k |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 7,415 | 23% | 30 h | 23 h | 59k |
| Apr 15, 2025 | No storm report | 8,958 | 28% | 8.2 h | 3.8 h | 50k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 10,232 | 32% | 18 h | 15 h | 49k |
| Aug 18, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,953 | 12% | 23 h | 21 h | 48k |
| Feb 24, 2022 | No storm report | 2,721 | 8% | 37 h | 3.2 h | 44k |
| Feb 14, 2021 | No storm report | 2,760 | 9% | 40 h | 13 h | 42k |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 6,731 | 21% | 21 h | 4.0 h | 38k |
| May 1, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,095 | 13% | 19 h | 15 h | 37k |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,425 | 14% | 26 h | 23 h | 36k |
| Jun 2, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,810 | 6% | 22 h | 21 h | 35k |
| May 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,316 | 7% | 34 h | 34 h | 34k |
| Oct 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,875 | 9% | 18 h | 15 h | 33k |
| Jun 2, 2020 | No storm report | 2,904 | 9% | 12 h | 3.5 h | 32k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 8,620 | 27% | 28 h | 30 min | 31k |
| May 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 3,105 | 10% | 21 h | 20 h | 26k |
| Jun 26, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 4,162 | 13% | 19 h | 16 h | 23k |
| Mar 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,645 | 8% | 19 h | 15 h | 22k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | Tornadoes | 1,104 | 3% | 25 h | – | 21k |
| Jun 7, 2022 | No storm report | 3,253 | 10% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 20k |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,323 | 7% | 20 h | 18 h | 19k |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,568 | 5% | 26 h | – | 18k |
| Aug 5, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,663 | 8% | 10 h | 6.2 h | 17k |
| Dec 4, 2022 | No storm report | 2,622 | 8% | 6.5 h | 6.0 h | 17k |
| Jun 29, 2016 | No storm report | 2,395 | 7% | 8.8 h | 6.8 h | 16k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,276 | 7% | 11 h | 9.2 h | 15k |
| May 11, 2015 | Flooding | 2,048 | 6% | 12 h | 10 h | 14k |
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 Pope from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 55%
- No storm on record 42%
- Winter storm 1.5%
- Tornadoes 1.3%
- Flooding 1.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Pope
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.
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 32,152 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 →