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2016 Deaf Smith County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Deaf Smith County, TX went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 119 Texas counties and 1790th 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 Deaf Smith 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 4, 2016 03:00 | July 4, 2016 04:30 | 1h 30m | 6,860 | 7,688 |
| 2 | June 10, 2016 01:00 | June 10, 2016 01:15 | 15m | 4,276 | 1,069 |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 20:45 | July 15, 2016 00:15 | 3h 30m | 205 | 321 |
| 4 | August 8, 2016 14:15 | August 8, 2016 15:30 | 1h 15m | 201 | 251 |
| 5 | June 8, 2016 23:45 | June 9, 2016 00:45 | 1h | 164 | 164 |
| 6 | July 2, 2016 00:15 | July 2, 2016 01:00 | 45m | 149 | 112 |
| 7 | July 7, 2016 23:15 | July 8, 2016 05:15 | 6h | 137 | 99 |
| 8 | August 9, 2016 08:45 | August 9, 2016 16:15 | 7h 30m | 126 | 497 |
| 9 | July 23, 2016 00:45 | July 23, 2016 02:00 | 1h 15m | 121 | 91 |
| 10 | June 24, 2016 15:30 | June 24, 2016 17:45 | 2h 15m | 112 | 220 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Deaf Smith 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,107 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. Deaf Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deaf Smith 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/deaf-smith-county