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2016 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 119 Texas counties and 1792nd 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 Hale 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 | June 15, 2016 12:45 | June 15, 2016 16:15 | 3h 30m | 2,054 | 3,243 |
| 2 | June 15, 2016 17:00 | June 15, 2016 18:00 | 1h | 1,201 | 1,200 |
| 3 | August 8, 2016 05:30 | August 8, 2016 07:15 | 1h 45m | 1,200 | 1,031 |
| 4 | May 1, 2016 02:30 | May 1, 2016 04:00 | 1h 30m | 697 | 1,046 |
| 5 | May 14, 2016 00:30 | May 14, 2016 03:30 | 3h | 500 | 919 |
| 6 | May 18, 2016 01:00 | May 18, 2016 02:30 | 1h 30m | 327 | 409 |
| 7 | June 16, 2016 00:30 | June 16, 2016 13:30 | 13h | 302 | 1,566 |
| 8 | April 6, 2016 05:00 | April 6, 2016 09:30 | 4h 30m | 291 | 389 |
| 9 | March 23, 2016 17:00 | March 24, 2016 03:00 | 10h | 266 | 789 |
| 10 | September 9, 2016 13:00 | September 9, 2016 14:00 | 1h | 256 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hale 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 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county