When will the power be back in Craighead County, AR?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Craighead County, AR right now.

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Elsewhere in Arkansas: 1,278 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 11:46 PM CDT.

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Who serves Craighead County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Entergy and Craighead Electric Cooperative ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City Water and Light Plant also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Craighead County, AR

Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 223 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).

Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 48 min (median).

Every outage behind these figures (13)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Oct 1, 2026	223	~30 min	no severe weather
Oct 1, 2026	324	~48 min	no severe weather
Sep 21, 2026	529	~7 hr	wind/storm
Sep 15, 2026	527	~2.3 hr	heat event
Sep 10, 2026	1,579	~30 min	heat event
Aug 22, 2026	1,038	~19.2 hr	wind/storm
Aug 21, 2026	288	~1.2 hr	no severe weather
Aug 20, 2026	409	~48 min	no severe weather
Aug 19, 2026	515	~42 min	heat event
Aug 5, 2026	411	~1.3 hr	no severe weather
Aug 5, 2026	204	~1.8 hr	no severe weather
Aug 3, 2026	294	~30 min	no severe weather
Jul 28, 2026	276	~30 min	heat event

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 28, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Craighead County, AR

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 269 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the Arkansas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.

Largest on record: ~5,528 customers out in December 2021, restored after about 2.1 days.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Communities covered

Communities in Craighead County include Jonesboro, Brookland, Bono, Lake City, Bay, Monette, Caraway and Cash. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

This page also serves Jonesboro: its outages are counted in this county's total.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Craighead County, AR?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Craighead include Entergy, Craighead Electric Cooperative, and City Water and Light Plant — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Nearby counties & areas

Poinsett County · Greene County · Lawrence County · Mississippi County · Jackson County · Cross County · Clay County · Randolph County

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