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2015 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 653K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 162nd worst of 238 Texas counties and 1300th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 16, 2015 18:00 | November 18, 2015 07:00 | 1d 13h | 9,381 | 58K |
| 2 | October 19, 2015 04:45 | October 19, 2015 07:45 | 3h | 8,761 | 20K |
| 3 | April 23, 2015 23:00 | April 24, 2015 00:45 | 1h 45m | 7,963 | 3,003 |
| 4 | July 10, 2015 22:30 | July 12, 2015 03:15 | 1d 4h | 7,877 | 39K |
| 5 | August 15, 2015 23:15 | August 16, 2015 09:45 | 10h 30m | 7,563 | 13K |
| 6 | October 26, 2015 07:45 | October 26, 2015 11:45 | 4h | 6,574 | 14K |
| 7 | July 23, 2015 16:15 | July 23, 2015 18:00 | 1h 45m | 6,448 | 3,321 |
| 8 | July 27, 2015 16:00 | July 28, 2015 22:45 | 1d 6h | 6,367 | 7,830 |
| 9 | March 9, 2015 16:45 | March 9, 2015 17:30 | 45m | 6,020 | 3,013 |
| 10 | June 29, 2015 16:45 | June 29, 2015 23:15 | 6h 30m | 5,394 | 8,107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 208 reached 100+ customers, 65 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving El Paso County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Electric Co | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 1.17 | 84 min | 1.07 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Texas's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 349,484 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso County, TX annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/texas/el-paso-county