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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.
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 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Craighead County
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.
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.
