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2016 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 119 Texas counties and 1324th 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 Polk 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 | December 25, 2016 18:45 | December 25, 2016 22:00 | 3h 15m | 773 | 581 |
| 2 | December 20, 2016 13:15 | December 20, 2016 16:45 | 3h 30m | 656 | 438 |
| 3 | April 19, 2016 20:45 | April 19, 2016 22:15 | 1h 30m | 607 | 458 |
| 4 | December 13, 2016 14:45 | December 13, 2016 19:00 | 4h 15m | 562 | 304 |
| 5 | May 27, 2016 00:45 | May 29, 2016 02:00 | 2d 1h | 525 | 13K |
| 6 | December 3, 2016 06:45 | December 3, 2016 09:45 | 3h | 520 | 1,152 |
| 7 | December 3, 2016 11:15 | December 3, 2016 15:00 | 3h 45m | 395 | 526 |
| 8 | July 13, 2016 13:45 | July 13, 2016 23:00 | 9h 15m | 284 | 654 |
| 9 | May 25, 2016 23:00 | May 26, 2016 10:15 | 11h 15m | 282 | 987 |
| 10 | December 27, 2016 22:15 | December 27, 2016 23:30 | 1h 15m | 282 | 282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.17 | 3.3 hrs | 1.73 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 13.5 hrs | - | 4.3 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,122 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county