Hundreds without power as rain and lightning hit Northwest Arkansas
Hundreds without power in Northwest Arkansas early Saturday morning
Updated: 7:48 AM CDT Jun 7, 2025
Hundreds of people in Northwest Arkansas are without power as of 7:17 a.m. Saturday. The Arkansas Electric Cooperative, which includes Ozarks Electric and Carroll Electric, reports 2,181 customers are without power in Madison County, 742 in Benton County, 598 in Washington County, 196 in Crawford County, 336 in Franklin County. In eastern Oklahoma, 1,221 Ozarks Electric Cooperative customers are without power in Adair County.Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative is reporting 126 customers in Sequoyah County.This comes as heavy rain and lightning moved through the area. Three hundred customers lost power near the intersection of Wagon Wheel Rd and Highway 264 in Springdale just before 6 a.m. Saturday, according to SWEPCO electric’s online outage map. Power was restored in under 2 hours.
Hundreds of people in Northwest Arkansas are without power as of 7:17 a.m. Saturday.
The Arkansas Electric Cooperative, which includes Ozarks Electric and Carroll Electric, reports 2,181 customers are without power in Madison County, 742 in Benton County, 598 in Washington County, 196 in Crawford County, 336 in Franklin County.
In eastern Oklahoma, 1,221 Ozarks Electric Cooperative customers are without power in Adair County.
Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative is reporting 126 customers in Sequoyah County.
This comes as heavy rain and lightning moved through the area.
Three hundred customers lost power near the intersection of Wagon Wheel Rd and Highway 264 in Springdale just before 6 a.m. Saturday, according to SWEPCO electric’s online outage map. Power was restored in under 2 hours.