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2017 Deaf Smith County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Deaf Smith County, TX went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 8,091 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 118th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2211th 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 Deaf Smith 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 | December 28, 2017 03:15 | December 28, 2017 03:30 | 15m | 1,645 | 411 |
| 2 | July 5, 2017 00:30 | July 5, 2017 11:15 | 10h 45m | 422 | 1,386 |
| 3 | June 26, 2017 03:45 | June 26, 2017 17:30 | 13h 45m | 390 | 1,562 |
| 4 | July 11, 2017 01:30 | July 11, 2017 04:30 | 3h | 287 | 154 |
| 5 | April 30, 2017 04:45 | April 30, 2017 18:45 | 14h | 207 | 2,159 |
| 6 | December 12, 2017 15:30 | December 12, 2017 16:00 | 30m | 175 | 88 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 00:45 | June 16, 2017 04:00 | 3h 15m | 164 | 351 |
| 8 | October 25, 2017 13:45 | October 25, 2017 14:45 | 1h | 128 | 40 |
| 9 | June 17, 2017 22:15 | June 18, 2017 00:30 | 2h 15m | 112 | 132 |
| 10 | June 21, 2017 19:30 | June 21, 2017 20:15 | 45m | 106 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 11 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 Deaf Smith 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,107 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. Deaf Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deaf Smith 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/deaf-smith-county