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2016 Wheeler County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wheeler County, TX went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 6,495 customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 119 Texas counties and 1052nd 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 Wheeler 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 | May 29, 2016 20:45 | May 30, 2016 04:00 | 7h 15m | 331 | 1,547 |
| 2 | March 23, 2016 18:15 | March 24, 2016 14:00 | 19h 45m | 180 | 1,694 |
| 3 | June 26, 2016 21:45 | June 27, 2016 03:00 | 5h 15m | 180 | 832 |
| 4 | February 29, 2016 22:45 | February 29, 2016 23:15 | 30m | 156 | 78 |
| 5 | May 24, 2016 07:30 | May 24, 2016 10:15 | 2h 45m | 144 | 262 |
| 6 | August 8, 2016 01:15 | August 8, 2016 03:45 | 2h 30m | 140 | 53 |
| 7 | August 8, 2016 15:00 | August 8, 2016 16:15 | 1h 15m | 139 | 139 |
| 8 | December 25, 2016 15:15 | December 25, 2016 17:00 | 1h 45m | 82 | 89 |
| 9 | March 24, 2016 14:45 | March 25, 2016 00:30 | 9h 45m | 69 | 120 |
| 10 | January 5, 2016 21:45 | January 5, 2016 23:30 | 1h 45m | 67 | 61 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Wheeler 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2016 | 5.1 hrs | 2.07 | 3.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 2,320 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. Wheeler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wheeler 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/wheeler-county