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2017 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 24.0 hours, a total of 267K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 249 Texas counties and 226th 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 Polk 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 | January 7, 2017 11:45 | January 8, 2017 00:45 | 13h | 8,247 | 41K |
| 2 | August 27, 2017 09:00 | September 3, 2017 23:15 | 7d 14h | 3,816 | 107K |
| 3 | January 2, 2017 12:15 | January 3, 2017 04:45 | 16h 30m | 2,912 | 19K |
| 4 | May 23, 2017 03:15 | May 23, 2017 08:45 | 5h 30m | 1,880 | 3,207 |
| 5 | May 24, 2017 00:15 | May 24, 2017 08:45 | 8h 30m | 1,880 | 4,175 |
| 6 | March 24, 2017 19:30 | March 27, 2017 02:00 | 2d 6h | 1,878 | 15K |
| 7 | June 25, 2017 14:00 | June 25, 2017 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,678 | 1,271 |
| 8 | September 6, 2017 04:00 | September 6, 2017 23:00 | 19h | 1,670 | 3,532 |
| 9 | April 17, 2017 22:45 | April 18, 2017 05:00 | 6h 15m | 1,592 | 3,080 |
| 10 | June 24, 2017 07:30 | June 24, 2017 12:45 | 5h 15m | 1,479 | 6,116 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 78 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2017 | 23.3 hrs | 2.33 | 3.7 hrs | 1.60 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 20.7 hrs | - | 7.1 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,122 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county