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Who serves Polk County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include SWEPCO, Arkansas Electric Cooperatives and Southwest Arkansas 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Polk County, AR
⚡ Power here was restored about 31 hours ago — the outage peaked at 1,119 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,119 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 11 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 25, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Polk County, AR
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
93 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 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: ~2,218 customers out in July 2021, restored after about 1.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
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 Polk County include Mena, Wickes, Grannis, Hatfield, Cove, Vandervoort, Acorn and Board Camp. 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 Polk County, AR?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Polk include SWEPCO, Arkansas Electric Cooperatives and Southwest Arkansas 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.
