Power outage history
Woodruff County Arkansas
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
30th most of 73 in Arkansas 2.0× 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 Woodruff's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 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.
Woodruff, 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 15, 2025 | Flooding | 1,567 | 45% | 2.9 d | 44 h | 61k |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,944 | 56% | 4.3 d | 46 h | 46k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 2,172 | 62% | 26 h | 18 h | 34k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Tornadoes | 1,273 | 36% | 41 h | 27 h | 14k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Flooding | 262 | 8% | 38 h | 25 h | 8.7k |
| Jul 23, 2015 | Flooding | 1,044 | 30% | 9.0 h | 7.5 h | 8.2k |
| May 21, 2022 | Flooding | 859 | 25% | 12 h | 6.0 h | 8.0k |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Flooding | 1,521 | 44% | 6.8 h | 7.0 h | 7.3k |
| Jul 18, 2022 | No storm report | 897 | 26% | 13 h | 10 h | 6.0k |
| Dec 9, 2018 | Winter storm | 739 | 21% | 17 h | 48 min | 5.5k |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Flooding | 1,379 | 39% | 12 h | 4.2 h | 5.2k |
| Apr 5, 2025 | Flooding | 526 | 15% | 18 h | 5.0 h | 4.5k |
| Mar 25, 2024 | No storm report | 700 | 20% | 29 h | 27 h | 4.2k |
| May 15, 2022 | Flooding | 671 | 19% | 6.8 h | 18 h | 3.9k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Flooding | 321 | 9% | 2.3 d | 44 h | 3.7k |
| May 21, 2019 | Flooding | 680 | 19% | 8.5 h | 5.5 h | 3.6k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 679 | 19% | 18 h | 13 h | 3.3k |
| Jul 25, 2023 | No storm report | 465 | 13% | 7.5 h | 3.8 h | 3.1k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | No storm report | 789 | 23% | 13 h | 2.2 h | 2.6k |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Winter storm | 567 | 16% | 6.2 h | 15 h | 2.6k |
| May 7, 2018 | Flooding | 806 | 23% | 8.5 h | 8.8 h | 2.5k |
| May 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 180 | 5% | 20 h | 18 h | 2.4k |
| May 28, 2018 | No storm report | 1,502 | 43% | 2.8 h | 1.2 h | 2.3k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 604 | 17% | 12 h | 8.5 h | 2.2k |
| Aug 14, 2016 | No storm report | 822 | 24% | 3.0 h | 2.5 h | 2.2k |
| May 18, 2025 | Flooding | 469 | 13% | 7.5 h | 3.2 h | 2.1k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | No storm report | 907 | 26% | 17 h | 12 min | 2.0k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | Flooding | 569 | 16% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.8k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 204 | 6% | 22 h | 20 h | 1.7k |
| Oct 25, 2023 | No storm report | 321 | 9% | 5.5 h | 5.0 h | 1.6k |
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 Woodruff from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Flooding 45%
- No storm on record 22%
- Winter storm 17%
- Tropical storm 10%
- Tornadoes 4.0%
- Thunderstorms 1.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Woodruff
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 |
| Woodruff Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 45 | 45 | 0.42 | 12.5 | 12k |
| City of Augusta | AR | – | – | – | – | 8.2k |
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
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 3,495 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 →