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2016 Potter County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Potter County, TX went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 119 Texas counties and 1500th 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 Potter 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 26, 2016 02:45 | August 26, 2016 04:45 | 2h | 4,516 | 7,064 |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 07:30 | July 25, 2016 13:30 | 6h | 2,027 | 3,383 |
| 3 | August 4, 2016 08:30 | August 4, 2016 12:45 | 4h 15m | 1,832 | 3,451 |
| 4 | July 30, 2016 03:15 | July 30, 2016 22:00 | 18h 45m | 1,756 | 3,174 |
| 5 | May 21, 2016 20:45 | May 22, 2016 02:15 | 5h 30m | 1,755 | 2,452 |
| 6 | June 6, 2016 18:30 | June 7, 2016 05:15 | 10h 45m | 1,446 | 5,062 |
| 7 | April 11, 2016 02:45 | April 11, 2016 17:45 | 15h | 1,334 | 3,410 |
| 8 | June 24, 2016 09:45 | June 24, 2016 20:15 | 10h 30m | 1,257 | 1,089 |
| 9 | June 8, 2016 15:45 | June 8, 2016 19:15 | 3h 30m | 1,121 | 841 |
| 10 | August 12, 2016 00:00 | August 12, 2016 12:00 | 12h | 962 | 813 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 57 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Potter 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 |
| Rita Blanca 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 ÷ 38,898 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county