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2016 Castro County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Castro County, TX went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 2,431 customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 119 Texas counties and 2035th 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 Castro 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 | September 12, 2016 14:15 | September 12, 2016 15:45 | 1h 30m | 929 | 674 |
| 2 | June 16, 2016 00:30 | June 16, 2016 04:00 | 3h 30m | 452 | 435 |
| 3 | August 28, 2016 03:00 | August 28, 2016 08:15 | 5h 15m | 220 | 456 |
| 4 | August 5, 2016 11:15 | August 5, 2016 17:30 | 6h 15m | 144 | 381 |
| 5 | April 1, 2016 06:45 | April 1, 2016 10:30 | 3h 45m | 104 | 216 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 18:15 | July 7, 2016 19:00 | 45m | 69 | 52 |
| 7 | May 2, 2016 20:15 | May 2, 2016 21:30 | 1h 15m | 55 | 55 |
| 8 | May 26, 2016 22:30 | May 27, 2016 00:00 | 1h 30m | 40 | 50 |
| 9 | May 30, 2016 02:15 | May 30, 2016 04:30 | 2h 15m | 22 | 14 |
| 10 | March 27, 2016 02:15 | March 27, 2016 03:00 | 45m | 12 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 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 Castro 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 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 3.30 | 5.5 hrs | 2.90 |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,080 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. Castro County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Castro 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/castro-county