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2017 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 621K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1715th 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 El Paso 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 29, 2017 19:30 | December 29, 2017 22:00 | 2h 30m | 16,672 | 18K |
| 2 | February 24, 2017 16:30 | February 24, 2017 18:30 | 2h | 16,072 | 6,903 |
| 3 | July 10, 2017 22:00 | July 11, 2017 04:15 | 6h 15m | 12,482 | 16K |
| 4 | May 30, 2017 03:15 | May 31, 2017 06:15 | 1d 3h | 11,766 | 65K |
| 5 | July 7, 2017 21:30 | July 8, 2017 04:30 | 7h | 9,062 | 20K |
| 6 | September 16, 2017 15:45 | September 17, 2017 00:30 | 8h 45m | 8,891 | 15K |
| 7 | January 21, 2017 16:45 | January 23, 2017 02:00 | 1d 9h | 7,169 | 28K |
| 8 | August 15, 2017 02:00 | August 16, 2017 00:15 | 22h 15m | 7,122 | 42K |
| 9 | June 23, 2017 16:00 | June 24, 2017 07:30 | 15h 30m | 6,677 | 5,162 |
| 10 | June 24, 2017 13:00 | June 25, 2017 03:00 | 14h | 6,495 | 6,667 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 214 reached 100+ customers, 74 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Electric Co | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| Rio Grande 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county