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

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

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Who serves Hempstead County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Entergy, Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative, SWEPCO and South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Hope 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Hempstead County, AR

Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 363 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.5 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (7)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Oct 3, 2026	363	~2 hr	no severe weather
Sep 30, 2026	204	~30 min	no severe weather
Sep 22, 2026	411	~1 hr	heat event
Sep 4, 2026	366	~1.5 hr	no severe weather
Aug 26, 2026	621	~10.3 hr	wind/storm
Aug 24, 2026	478	~42 min	no severe weather
Aug 17, 2026	236	~1.5 hr	heat event

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 17, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Hempstead County, AR

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 289 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.

Largest on record: ~2,752 customers out in February 2023, restored after about 3.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.

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 Hempstead County include Hope, Blevins, Perrytown, Fulton, Washington, Oakhaven, McCaskill and Patmos. 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 Hempstead County, AR?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hempstead include Entergy, Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative, SWEPCO and others — 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.

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