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2016 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 540K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 119 Texas counties and 1519th 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 El Paso 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 30, 2016 07:15 | October 1, 2016 00:45 | 17h 30m | 15,755 | 38K |
| 2 | April 7, 2016 03:00 | April 7, 2016 04:00 | 1h | 10,329 | 7,394 |
| 3 | April 4, 2016 11:15 | April 4, 2016 13:30 | 2h 15m | 8,930 | 2,323 |
| 4 | December 17, 2016 14:45 | December 18, 2016 07:00 | 16h 15m | 8,673 | 33K |
| 5 | April 29, 2016 16:00 | April 29, 2016 18:30 | 2h 30m | 7,628 | 15K |
| 6 | May 12, 2016 12:15 | May 12, 2016 15:45 | 3h 30m | 6,785 | 14K |
| 7 | September 15, 2016 05:00 | September 15, 2016 08:45 | 3h 45m | 6,282 | 7,868 |
| 8 | January 21, 2016 13:45 | January 21, 2016 17:00 | 3h 15m | 6,182 | 13K |
| 9 | July 16, 2016 01:00 | July 17, 2016 08:00 | 1d 7h | 5,689 | 23K |
| 10 | September 24, 2016 01:45 | September 24, 2016 19:15 | 17h 30m | 5,615 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 201 reached 100+ customers, 68 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Electric Co | 2016 | 67 min | 0.91 | 61 min | 0.86 |
| Rio Grande 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 ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county