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2017 Garza County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Garza County, TX went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 249 Texas counties and 766th 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 Garza 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 | March 31, 2017 04:45 | March 31, 2017 12:15 | 7h 30m | 2,013 | 15K |
| 2 | June 3, 2017 14:00 | June 3, 2017 15:15 | 1h 15m | 2,010 | 2,010 |
| 3 | September 4, 2017 11:45 | September 4, 2017 15:45 | 4h | 216 | 493 |
| 4 | October 7, 2017 06:15 | October 7, 2017 13:00 | 6h 45m | 61 | 295 |
| 5 | April 17, 2017 03:00 | April 17, 2017 06:15 | 3h 15m | 53 | 138 |
| 6 | July 17, 2017 15:00 | July 17, 2017 19:00 | 4h | 43 | 69 |
| 7 | September 11, 2017 14:30 | September 11, 2017 15:45 | 1h 15m | 43 | 53 |
| 8 | June 15, 2017 23:45 | June 16, 2017 02:45 | 3h | 31 | 84 |
| 9 | June 23, 2017 14:30 | June 23, 2017 16:30 | 2h | 27 | 47 |
| 10 | June 22, 2017 00:30 | June 22, 2017 01:30 | 1h | 24 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Garza 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 7.7 hrs | - | 7.7 hrs | - |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Country 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 ÷ 2,693 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. Garza County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garza 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/garza-county