Lightning strikes in Arkansas by county
The detection network has located 55,740 lightning strikes in Arkansas since the archive began, including 14,622 in the last 7 days. The table counts every strike the network placed inside a county boundary.
| # | County | Strikes | Last 7 days | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garland County | 2,928 | 309 | 5.3% |
| 2 | Montgomery County | 2,596 | 137 | 4.7% |
| 3 | Drew County | 2,537 | 292 | 4.6% |
| 4 | Cleveland County | 2,346 | 390 | 4.2% |
| 5 | Saline County | 2,126 | 31 | 3.8% |
| 6 | Bradley County | 1,981 | 401 | 3.6% |
| 7 | Pike County | 1,873 | 1,346 | 3.4% |
| 8 | Calhoun County | 1,708 | 491 | 3.1% |
| 9 | Greene County | 1,647 | 25 | 3.0% |
| 10 | Newton County | 1,642 | 732 | 2.9% |
| 11 | Mississippi County | 1,544 | 25 | 2.8% |
| 12 | Pope County | 1,491 | 523 | 2.7% |
| 13 | Perry County | 1,415 | 80 | 2.5% |
| 14 | Arkansas County | 1,369 | 13 | 2.5% |
| 15 | Polk County | 1,353 | 433 | 2.4% |
| 16 | Ouachita County | 1,304 | 939 | 2.3% |
| 17 | Yell County | 1,268 | 136 | 2.3% |
| 18 | Pulaski County | 1,205 | 6 | 2.2% |
| 19 | Jefferson County | 1,200 | 31 | 2.2% |
| 20 | Ashley County | 1,088 | 245 | 2.0% |
| 21 | Dallas County | 1,025 | 325 | 1.8% |
| 22 | Clark County | 914 | 453 | 1.6% |
| 23 | Union County | 900 | 608 | 1.6% |
| 24 | Clay County | 834 | 151 | 1.5% |
| 25 | Howard County | 831 | 724 | 1.5% |
| 26 | Randolph County | 794 | 214 | 1.4% |
| 27 | Scott County | 773 | 14 | 1.4% |
| 28 | Sevier County | 765 | 760 | 1.4% |
| 29 | Madison County | 735 | 296 | 1.3% |
| 30 | Carroll County | 725 | 368 | 1.3% |
| 31 | Johnson County | 717 | 126 | 1.3% |
| 32 | Columbia County | 698 | 615 | 1.3% |
| 33 | Marion County | 675 | 138 | 1.2% |
| 34 | Grant County | 661 | 57 | 1.2% |
| 35 | Lincoln County | 652 | 50 | 1.2% |
| 36 | Hot Spring County | 605 | 271 | 1.1% |
| 37 | Fulton County | 605 | 88 | 1.1% |
| 38 | Lonoke County | 591 | 22 | 1.1% |
| 39 | Boone County | 502 | 298 | 0.9% |
| 40 | Miller County | 484 | 483 | 0.9% |
| 41 | Hempstead County | 481 | 331 | 0.9% |
| 42 | Baxter County | 430 | 164 | 0.8% |
| 43 | Franklin County | 390 | 13 | 0.7% |
| 44 | Little River County | 333 | 333 | 0.6% |
| 45 | Searcy County | 287 | 91 | 0.5% |
| 46 | Van Buren County | 285 | 44 | 0.5% |
| 47 | Prairie County | 283 | 28 | 0.5% |
| 48 | Stone County | 272 | 0 | 0.5% |
| 49 | Izard County | 262 | 7 | 0.5% |
| 50 | Benton County | 260 | 49 | 0.5% |
| 51 | Logan County | 259 | 40 | 0.5% |
| 52 | Nevada County | 259 | 176 | 0.5% |
| 53 | St. Francis County | 240 | 184 | 0.4% |
| 54 | Crawford County | 224 | 25 | 0.4% |
| 55 | Lawrence County | 207 | 4 | 0.4% |
| 56 | Chicot County | 191 | 26 | 0.3% |
| 57 | Sebastian County | 182 | 8 | 0.3% |
| 58 | Crittenden County | 174 | 109 | 0.3% |
| 59 | Craighead County | 171 | 4 | 0.3% |
| 60 | Sharp County | 168 | 18 | 0.3% |
| 61 | Desha County | 145 | 0 | 0.3% |
| 62 | Lafayette County | 132 | 107 | 0.2% |
| 63 | Cross County | 116 | 65 | 0.2% |
| 64 | Conway County | 115 | 42 | 0.2% |
| 65 | Faulkner County | 111 | 26 | 0.2% |
| 66 | Independence County | 107 | 0 | 0.2% |
| 67 | Poinsett County | 105 | 6 | 0.2% |
| 68 | Phillips County | 99 | 7 | 0.2% |
| 69 | Cleburne County | 97 | 17 | 0.2% |
| 70 | Monroe County | 74 | 16 | 0.1% |
| 71 | White County | 50 | 7 | 0.1% |
| 72 | Washington County | 44 | 13 | 0.1% |
| 73 | Woodruff County | 37 | 11 | 0.1% |
| 74 | Lee County | 37 | 5 | 0.1% |
| 75 | Jackson County | 6 | 0 | 0.0% |
Strike positions carry the network's mean location error of about 5.6 km, so strikes near a county line can be filed one county over. Method and caveats are on the data hub; the full state table is on the United States page.
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