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2016 Gaines County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Gaines County, TX went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 119 Texas counties and 1535th 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 Gaines 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 | August 29, 2016 02:30 | August 30, 2016 02:15 | 23h 45m | 3,224 | 4,860 |
| 2 | April 18, 2016 20:45 | April 18, 2016 23:15 | 2h 30m | 3,217 | 2,368 |
| 3 | June 12, 2016 02:45 | June 13, 2016 01:30 | 22h 45m | 1,508 | 4,199 |
| 4 | May 22, 2016 01:30 | May 22, 2016 19:00 | 17h 30m | 1,191 | 2,092 |
| 5 | August 12, 2016 23:00 | August 13, 2016 01:45 | 2h 45m | 410 | 352 |
| 6 | August 25, 2016 22:45 | August 26, 2016 04:45 | 6h | 390 | 696 |
| 7 | September 7, 2016 15:00 | September 7, 2016 18:00 | 3h | 291 | 436 |
| 8 | July 6, 2016 13:00 | July 7, 2016 00:45 | 11h 45m | 282 | 540 |
| 9 | August 13, 2016 02:30 | August 13, 2016 02:45 | 15m | 252 | 63 |
| 10 | August 13, 2016 03:45 | August 13, 2016 09:45 | 6h | 252 | 421 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 18 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Gaines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.72 | 2.4 hrs | 1.43 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 | 1.8 hrs | 1.12 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | - | 3.8 hrs | - |
| Lea County 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 ÷ 13,871 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. Gaines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaines 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/gaines-county