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Who serves Franklin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corp, Oklahoma Gas & Electric and Ozarks Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Franklin County, AR
⚡ Power here was restored about 18 hours ago — the outage peaked at 382 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 382 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 7, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Franklin County, AR
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
202 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the Arkansas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~5,843 customers out in May 2021, restored after about 39.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Franklin County include Ozark, Charleston, Altus, Branch, Denning, Wiederkehr Village and Alix. 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 Franklin County, AR?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Franklin include Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corp, Oklahoma Gas & Electric and Ozarks Electric Cooperative — 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.
