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

Power outage history

Sharp County Arkansas

13hours

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

29th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 25, 2023 73% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 8.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.8 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 7.0days Apr 4, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 53% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 33 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,758 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 Sharp'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 33 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Sharp, hours without power per customer

SharpUS median countyArkansas average
0 10 20 30 40 2.5 ’15 3.5 ’16 12 ’17 3.3 ’18 2.6 ’19 5.8 ’20 7.0 ’21 15 ’22 31 ’23 8.6 ’24 33 ’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 7,832 73% 3.7 d 22 h 236k
Mar 14, 2025 No storm report 6,501 60% 5.7 d 3.3 d 221k
May 21, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,401 41% 2.1 d 20 h 85k
Apr 4, 2025 Flooding 2,433 23% 7.0 d 32 h 85k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,458 32% 2.1 d 31 h 46k
May 27, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,886 27% 40 h 1.2 h 40k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,055 28% 36 h 18 h 30k
Apr 15, 2023 No storm report 3,362 31% 10 h 9.0 h 25k
Jun 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,725 25% 2.1 d 23 h 19k
Jan 18, 2016 No storm report 1,960 18% 6.5 h 6.5 h 13k
May 5, 2018 No storm report 2,370 22% 4.8 h 3.2 h 11k
Apr 15, 2022 No storm report 1,749 16% 15 h 14 h 11k

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

  • No storm on record 47%
  • Winter storm 23%
  • Thunderstorms 18%
  • Flooding 9.7%
  • Tropical storm 0.9%
  • Tornadoes 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Sharp

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
North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 740 202 2.63 14.2 37k
Craighead Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 500 193 3.31 12.5 25k
Clay County Electric Coop Corp Cooperative 979 330 2.53 14.4 11k

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 10,758 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 →