State · EIA Form 861 · AR
Arkansas
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for Arkansas utilities come from the federal annual survey. 18 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: long chronic outage minutes relative to the 51-state Form 861 cohort (>365 min tercile cut).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
Arkansas
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
Arkansas sits in the upper-third SAIDI band at 772.3 minutes across 18 reporting utilities (North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc highest at 1809.5), above the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- Arkansas 772.3
- West Virginia 747.2
- Vermont 744.4
- Mississippi 801.3
- Tennessee 866.4
- Kentucky 867.6
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
Arkansas vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
18 Top 43% more reporting utilities than 57% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability · Arkansas long-outage cohort
All 18 electric utilities in Arkansas with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the upper-third Form 861 band.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Arkansas
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 10 Arkansas utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in Arkansas
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of Siloam Springs - (AR) | Municipal | 14.1 | 0.23 | 9,234 |
| 2 | Woodruff Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 39.7 | 0.13 | 20,025 |
| 3 | City of Hope - (AR) | Municipal | 196.6 | 1.74 | 6,901 |
| 4 | Empire District Electric Co | IOU | 303.4 | 2.61 | 165,360 |
| 5 | Ozarks Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | Cooperative | 326.5 | 1.72 | 75,045 |
| 6 | Conway Corporation | Municipal | 366.0 | 0.86 | 33,522 |
| 7 | Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | Cooperative | 371.1 | 2.22 | 104,679 |
| 8 | Craighead Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 438.6 | 3.21 | 31,788 |
| 9 | Southwest Arkansas E C C | Cooperative | 452.5 | 1.99 | 27,705 |
| 10 | Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co | IOU | 492.0 | 1.80 | 822,878 |
| 11 | Southwestern Electric Power Co | IOU | 584.2 | 2.09 | 234,806 |
| 12 | First Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 692.5 | 2.52 | 102,267 |
| 13 | Clay County Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | Cooperative | 750.7 | 1.57 | 13,243 |
| 14 | Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp | Cooperative | 778.2 | 3.05 | 57,804 |
| 15 | Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp | Cooperative | 836.1 | 2.43 | 20,589 |
| 16 | Entergy Arkansas LLC | IOU | 1211.8 | 2.05 | 729,550 |
| 17 | City of North Little Rock - (AR) | Municipal | 1558.5 | - | 39,873 |
| 18 | North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 1809.5 | 3.14 | 38,609 |
Nationwide states with similar utility inventory or customer scale
Cross-state peer sets for Arkansas (upper-third SAIDI band). Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar utility headcount
Nearest states by reporting utility count (18 here).
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (2.5M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this Arkansas roster · long-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in Arkansas: City of Siloam Springs - (AR) (14.1 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in Arkansas: North Arkansas Elec Coop, Inc (1809.5 min)
- Ownership mix here: Cooperative leads (10 of 18 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: West Virginia (747.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Vermont (744.4 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Mississippi (801.3 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Tennessee (866.4 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Kentucky (867.6 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.