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2017 Carson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Carson County, TX went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1387th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carson County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 7, 2017 02:30 | October 7, 2017 21:30 | 19h | 1,098 | 4,561 |
| 2 | March 28, 2017 18:00 | March 29, 2017 05:00 | 11h | 226 | 284 |
| 3 | May 5, 2017 19:30 | May 5, 2017 20:45 | 1h 15m | 153 | 39 |
| 4 | May 16, 2017 00:00 | May 16, 2017 08:00 | 8h | 152 | 427 |
| 5 | April 30, 2017 09:15 | May 2, 2017 15:00 | 2d 5h | 127 | 666 |
| 6 | July 15, 2017 01:30 | July 15, 2017 05:15 | 3h 45m | 111 | 389 |
| 7 | August 6, 2017 00:30 | August 8, 2017 02:00 | 2d 1h | 104 | 2,703 |
| 8 | July 29, 2017 22:00 | July 30, 2017 06:45 | 8h 45m | 103 | 99 |
| 9 | August 13, 2017 21:45 | August 14, 2017 14:00 | 16h 15m | 91 | 368 |
| 10 | August 5, 2017 17:00 | August 5, 2017 19:30 | 2h 30m | 87 | 153 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 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 Carson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,187 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. Carson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carson County, TX annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/texas/carson-county