Arkansas power outages

Live outages across Arkansas from Entergy Arkansas, SWEPCO and OG&E, updated every 10 minutes. 32 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Elevated outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

949customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.10% of 931,518 customersUpdated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

Entergy Arkansas896 / 733,485

SWEPCO53 / 127,726

OG&E0 / 70,307

Empire District Electric Cono live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR)no live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

First Electric Coop Corpno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

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Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

74 counties with live data

County	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Independence County	303	20,530	1.48%
Pulaski County	169	157,149	0.11%
Columbia County	89	12,550	0.71%
Yell County	56	11,369	0.49%
Union County	49	23,437	0.21%
Jefferson County	42	31,543	0.13%
Jackson County	30	5,007	0.60%
Montgomery County	29	7,545	0.38%
Scott County	29	2,439	1.19%
Stone County	25	8,581	0.29%
Washington County	20	57,192	0.03%
Garland County	16	62,957	0.03%
Chicot County	15	5,292	0.28%
Phillips County	13	8,692	0.15%
Ouachita County	11	8,913	0.12%

Cities

Utility counts by mailing city

Utilities group outages by the city in each customer's mailing address. A city's count can include nearby areas outside its city limits, and only covers that utility's customers.

City	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Fort Smith	43,419	0.00%
Van Buren	6,280	0.00%
Clarksville	484	0.00%
Alma	3,565	0.00%
Barling	2,794	0.00%
Ozark	2,081	0.00%
Paris	405	0.00%
Charleston	1,608	0.00%
Lavaca	1,921	0.00%
Lamar	589	0.00%
Mulberry	833	0.00%
Coal Hill	553	0.00%

Outage history in Arkansas

2014–2025 record

Arkansas averaged 12 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 13. Half were over within 6.5 hours; the longest lasted 2.6 days, starting April 5, 2025.

The largest on record began July 14, 2016, with 164,360 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in April.

12significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

5.2 dayslongest on record (April 2020)

164,360most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
July 14, 2016	164,360	2.2 days	3,665,201
May 26, 2024	137,411	4.1 days	4,587,772
June 25, 2023	136,571	2.1 days	3,485,259
April 13, 2020	135,124	5.2 days	7,966,670
January 25, 2023	120,095	2.4 days	3,561,192

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in Arkansas

Utilities

Entergy Arkansas
SWEPCO
OG&E
Empire District Electric Co no live feed
Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) no live feed
First Electric Coop Corp no live feed
Ozarks Electric Coop Corp - (AR) no live feed
Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp no live feed
City Water and Light Plant - (AR) no live feed
City of North Little Rock - (AR) no live feed
North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc no live feed