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2017 Castro County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Castro County, TX went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 3,738 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 114th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2169th 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 Castro 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 | April 24, 2017 16:45 | April 24, 2017 18:00 | 1h 15m | 386 | 294 |
| 2 | April 15, 2017 00:30 | April 17, 2017 23:00 | 2d 22h | 276 | 2,496 |
| 3 | April 6, 2017 01:45 | April 6, 2017 03:45 | 2h | 107 | 174 |
| 4 | July 5, 2017 01:00 | July 5, 2017 09:45 | 8h 45m | 107 | 226 |
| 5 | June 27, 2017 03:00 | June 27, 2017 04:30 | 1h 30m | 95 | 118 |
| 6 | August 21, 2017 03:00 | August 21, 2017 05:15 | 2h 15m | 40 | 90 |
| 7 | April 30, 2017 17:30 | April 30, 2017 23:15 | 5h 45m | 36 | 139 |
| 8 | July 31, 2017 01:00 | July 31, 2017 07:30 | 6h 30m | 28 | 119 |
| 9 | June 27, 2017 20:30 | June 27, 2017 23:00 | 2h 30m | 4 | 8 |
| 10 | August 14, 2017 03:15 | August 14, 2017 04:30 | 1h 15m | 3 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 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 Castro 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 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 2.00 |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,080 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. Castro County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Castro 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/castro-county