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County annual report · FIPS 48279

2016 Lamb County, TX Power Outage Report

In 2016, customers in Lamb County, TX went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 7,247 customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 119 Texas counties and 1851st of 2,391 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
0.9
8,331 customers
Customer-hours out
7,247
Peak customers out
1,263
Outages ≥1,000 out
1
0 of 10,000+ · 184 total
Longest outage
20h 30m
began September 7, 2016
Rank in state
72nd/119
1851st of 2,391 US

Compared with TX, the US and 2015

Lamb County, TX average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2016Lamb County 0.9 hours, Texas average 1.2 hours, US average 3.9 hours, Lamb County, 2015 4.3 hoursLamb CountyLamb County0.9hTexas averageTexas average1.2hUS averageUS average3.9hLamb County, 2015Lamb County, 20154.3h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2016; last bar is this county in 2015.

Month by month

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Lamb County, TX customer-hours without power by month, 2016Jan 375, Feb 217, Mar 1,112, Apr 275, May 265, Jun 1,035, Jul 224, Aug 507, Sep 3,238, Oct 0, Nov 0, Dec 001k2k3k4k375Jan217Feb1,112Mar275Apr265May1,035Jun224Jul507Aug3,238Sep0Oct0Nov0Dec
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Customer-hours; September was the worst month.

Lamb County year over year

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Lamb County, TX: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 4.3h; 2016: 0.9h; 2017: 2.8h; 2018: 0.7h, coverage 90%; 2019: 1.9h, coverage 93%; 2020: 3.1h, coverage 63%; 2021: 1.2h, coverage 94%; 2022: 1.3h, coverage 93%; 2023: 2.2h; 2024: 0.9h; 2025: 2.0h02460%50%100%4.3h20150.9h20162.8h20170.7h20181.9h20193.1h20201.2h20211.3h20222.2h20230.9h20242.0h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Lamb County, 2016

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1September 15, 2016 12:15September 15, 2016 16:304h 15m1,2632,688
2March 24, 2016 00:00March 24, 2016 06:006h476244
3March 23, 2016 18:30March 23, 2016 21:152h 45m368801
4June 15, 2016 23:45June 16, 2016 10:3010h 45m282658
5January 21, 2016 18:15January 21, 2016 22:154h272224
6August 11, 2016 21:00August 12, 2016 02:005h226303
7September 5, 2016 22:30September 6, 2016 00:151h 45m130227
8April 15, 2016 14:00April 15, 2016 16:152h 15m119237
9May 8, 2016 23:30May 9, 2016 01:001h 30m116145
10September 7, 2016 00:45September 7, 2016 21:1520h 30m108301

Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lamb County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Southwestern Public Service Co20161.8 hrs1.121.8 hrs1.12
South Plains Electric Coop Inc-----
Lamb County 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 ÷ 8,331 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. Lamb County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lamb 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/lamb-county

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