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2016 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 119 Texas counties and 833rd 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 Rusk 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 28, 2016 21:15 | June 29, 2016 00:30 | 3h 15m | 3,259 | 9,775 |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 19:00 | July 27, 2016 15:15 | 1d 20h | 1,959 | 9,956 |
| 3 | April 29, 2016 21:45 | May 1, 2016 23:15 | 2d 1h | 1,395 | 15K |
| 4 | August 28, 2016 23:00 | August 29, 2016 04:45 | 5h 45m | 1,207 | 2,143 |
| 5 | April 16, 2016 06:45 | April 16, 2016 11:45 | 5h | 998 | 1,629 |
| 6 | March 8, 2016 20:30 | March 8, 2016 23:15 | 2h 45m | 915 | 934 |
| 7 | August 17, 2016 09:00 | August 18, 2016 05:00 | 20h | 907 | 4,837 |
| 8 | September 13, 2016 21:45 | September 13, 2016 23:30 | 1h 45m | 777 | 234 |
| 9 | March 20, 2016 19:15 | March 21, 2016 00:00 | 4h 45m | 757 | 2,093 |
| 10 | August 23, 2016 12:45 | August 23, 2016 15:15 | 2h 30m | 679 | 233 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 71 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 Rusk 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 Electric Power Co | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | 2.07 | 3.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2016 | 16.1 hrs | 5.27 | 10.9 hrs | 4.85 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2016 | 9.8 hrs | - | 9.8 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | - | 6.4 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county