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2017 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 249 Texas counties and 1471st 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 Hale 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 | May 22, 2017 18:30 | May 22, 2017 20:45 | 2h 15m | 2,889 | 2,890 |
| 2 | September 16, 2017 22:30 | September 17, 2017 11:45 | 13h 15m | 2,105 | 3,176 |
| 3 | June 13, 2017 00:00 | June 13, 2017 07:45 | 7h 45m | 1,532 | 2,338 |
| 4 | September 18, 2017 12:30 | September 18, 2017 19:45 | 7h 15m | 1,445 | 1,807 |
| 5 | June 14, 2017 16:15 | June 15, 2017 15:30 | 23h 15m | 1,428 | 380 |
| 6 | July 2, 2017 09:15 | July 3, 2017 02:45 | 17h 30m | 1,207 | 13K |
| 7 | July 23, 2017 15:30 | July 23, 2017 17:30 | 2h | 1,200 | 601 |
| 8 | June 2, 2017 19:15 | June 3, 2017 06:15 | 11h | 737 | 1,354 |
| 9 | June 17, 2017 20:30 | June 18, 2017 02:45 | 6h 15m | 701 | 453 |
| 10 | June 27, 2017 12:30 | June 27, 2017 14:00 | 1h 30m | 666 | 279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 25 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Hale 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 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county