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2016 Bowie County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bowie County, TX went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 453K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 119 Texas counties and 810th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bowie 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 10, 2016 03:15 | May 12, 2016 15:45 | 2d 12h | 10,460 | 142K |
| 2 | December 24, 2016 04:45 | December 24, 2016 18:30 | 13h 45m | 4,912 | 16K |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 21:45 | July 18, 2016 18:15 | 3d 20h | 3,134 | 107K |
| 4 | July 23, 2016 19:30 | July 25, 2016 11:00 | 1d 15h | 2,998 | 11K |
| 5 | July 10, 2016 12:15 | July 11, 2016 12:00 | 23h 45m | 2,186 | 17K |
| 6 | August 6, 2016 19:45 | August 7, 2016 22:15 | 1d 2h | 1,944 | 9,906 |
| 7 | December 26, 2016 13:30 | December 26, 2016 16:15 | 2h 45m | 1,837 | 2,708 |
| 8 | April 25, 2016 05:30 | April 25, 2016 05:45 | 15m | 1,803 | 451 |
| 9 | July 5, 2016 20:15 | July 7, 2016 11:00 | 1d 14h | 1,674 | 32K |
| 10 | November 12, 2016 13:45 | November 12, 2016 16:45 | 3h | 1,551 | 3,369 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 80 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Bowie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | 2.07 | 3.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.58 | 1.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| Bowie-Cass 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 116,979 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. Bowie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowie County, TX 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/texas/bowie-county