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2016 Cotton County, OK Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cotton County, OK went without power for an average of 27.9 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Oklahoma average 4.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 74 Oklahoma counties and 104th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with OK, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Oklahoma customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cotton County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 23, 2016 06:30 | May 24, 2016 22:15 | 1d 15h | 3,389 | 41K |
| 2 | July 9, 2016 01:15 | July 9, 2016 07:00 | 5h 45m | 3,340 | 1,904 |
| 3 | June 5, 2016 00:00 | June 5, 2016 02:00 | 2h | 2,210 | 1,500 |
| 4 | April 11, 2016 04:30 | April 11, 2016 07:45 | 3h 15m | 2,190 | 1,869 |
| 5 | April 11, 2016 08:45 | April 11, 2016 10:30 | 1h 45m | 2,052 | 1,027 |
| 6 | July 16, 2016 06:15 | July 16, 2016 11:15 | 5h | 1,488 | 2,091 |
| 7 | August 13, 2016 03:45 | August 13, 2016 05:00 | 1h 15m | 1,472 | 1,104 |
| 8 | August 31, 2016 16:00 | August 31, 2016 16:30 | 30m | 1,472 | 385 |
| 9 | July 24, 2016 10:15 | July 24, 2016 11:15 | 1h | 1,470 | 1,103 |
| 10 | August 3, 2016 04:15 | August 3, 2016 05:00 | 45m | 1,466 | 733 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 28 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Cotton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of Oklahoma | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| Cotton Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 6.1 hrs | 3.02 | 3.3 hrs | 2.33 |
| Walters Public Works Authority | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Oklahoma's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,361 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. Cotton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cotton County, OK annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/oklahoma/cotton-county