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2017 Howard County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Howard County, TX went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,677 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 224th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2614th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard 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 14, 2017 21:00 | December 14, 2017 23:00 | 2h | 208 | 215 |
| 2 | December 18, 2017 15:45 | December 18, 2017 18:00 | 2h 15m | 199 | 251 |
| 3 | December 2, 2017 17:00 | December 2, 2017 18:30 | 1h 30m | 191 | 287 |
| 4 | December 11, 2017 17:15 | December 11, 2017 19:30 | 2h 15m | 165 | 131 |
| 5 | December 7, 2017 14:30 | December 7, 2017 19:00 | 4h 30m | 111 | 270 |
| 6 | December 26, 2017 16:30 | December 27, 2017 11:00 | 18h 30m | 73 | 984 |
| 7 | November 22, 2017 14:45 | November 22, 2017 15:15 | 30m | 53 | 27 |
| 8 | December 18, 2017 04:45 | December 18, 2017 11:15 | 6h 30m | 27 | 32 |
| 9 | November 21, 2017 15:15 | November 21, 2017 19:00 | 3h 45m | 19 | 66 |
| 10 | December 6, 2017 01:00 | December 6, 2017 07:45 | 6h 45m | 11 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 7.7 hrs | - | 7.7 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 43,808 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. Howard County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county