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2015 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 136th worst of 238 Texas counties and 1005th 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 Hale 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 | June 12, 2015 23:15 | June 15, 2015 03:45 | 2d 4h | 2,992 | 17K |
| 2 | September 2, 2015 18:00 | September 2, 2015 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,443 | 2,165 |
| 3 | July 1, 2015 01:45 | July 1, 2015 05:00 | 3h 15m | 1,291 | 2,583 |
| 4 | May 28, 2015 03:30 | May 28, 2015 10:30 | 7h | 1,226 | 1,757 |
| 5 | May 8, 2015 15:45 | May 9, 2015 04:30 | 12h 45m | 1,159 | 1,851 |
| 6 | July 13, 2015 17:00 | July 13, 2015 23:15 | 6h 15m | 1,141 | 1,431 |
| 7 | December 26, 2015 23:15 | December 28, 2015 01:15 | 1d 2h | 955 | 5,006 |
| 8 | May 15, 2015 02:00 | May 15, 2015 04:45 | 2h 45m | 696 | 1,740 |
| 9 | June 4, 2015 22:15 | June 5, 2015 00:00 | 1h 45m | 646 | 453 |
| 10 | November 10, 2015 14:45 | November 10, 2015 19:45 | 5h | 353 | 484 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 19 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Hale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2015 | 3.4 hrs | 1.53 | 2.1 hrs | 1.25 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county