See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Arkansas
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Who serves Independence County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Entergy, Craighead Electric Cooperative ↗ and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, 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 — Independence County, AR
Last significant outage: Aug 29, 2026 — peaked at 2,248 customers, restored in ~3.2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Independence County, AR
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
398 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 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: ~11,533 customers out in June 2018, restored after about 3.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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 Independence County
Communities in Independence County include Batesville, Southside, Newark, Sulphur Rock, Cushman, Pleasant Plains, Magness and Oil Trough. 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 Independence County, AR?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Independence include Entergy, Craighead Electric Cooperative and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives — 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.
