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2016 Carson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Carson County, TX went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 6,953 customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 119 Texas counties and 1468th 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 Carson 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 | July 16, 2016 03:30 | July 16, 2016 05:30 | 2h | 779 | 1,022 |
| 2 | June 14, 2016 02:00 | June 14, 2016 08:45 | 6h 45m | 282 | 1,041 |
| 3 | August 29, 2016 18:00 | August 29, 2016 23:15 | 5h 15m | 143 | 136 |
| 4 | February 25, 2016 21:45 | February 25, 2016 22:00 | 15m | 123 | 31 |
| 5 | March 27, 2016 01:30 | March 27, 2016 07:45 | 6h 15m | 123 | 524 |
| 6 | April 5, 2016 18:45 | April 6, 2016 06:45 | 12h | 101 | 213 |
| 7 | February 21, 2016 18:15 | February 21, 2016 19:45 | 1h 30m | 99 | 124 |
| 8 | May 8, 2016 05:30 | May 8, 2016 08:45 | 3h 15m | 94 | 275 |
| 9 | March 23, 2016 16:45 | March 24, 2016 03:15 | 10h 30m | 93 | 417 |
| 10 | February 5, 2016 00:45 | February 5, 2016 03:45 | 3h | 88 | 242 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Carson 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 Public Service Co | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 |
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 ÷ 4,187 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. Carson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carson 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/carson-county