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2017 Potter County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Potter County, TX went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1313th 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 Potter 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 | July 26, 2017 19:00 | July 27, 2017 21:00 | 1d 2h | 5,588 | 13K |
| 2 | April 30, 2017 03:00 | May 2, 2017 21:30 | 2d 18h | 3,546 | 27K |
| 3 | December 14, 2017 14:15 | December 14, 2017 18:15 | 4h | 3,501 | 970 |
| 4 | June 9, 2017 00:45 | June 9, 2017 23:45 | 23h | 3,077 | 9,117 |
| 5 | March 29, 2017 01:30 | March 29, 2017 05:30 | 4h | 2,243 | 564 |
| 6 | June 2, 2017 21:30 | June 3, 2017 06:15 | 8h 45m | 2,209 | 4,128 |
| 7 | August 10, 2017 09:45 | August 11, 2017 10:15 | 1d | 1,749 | 5,454 |
| 8 | December 18, 2017 17:00 | December 19, 2017 00:30 | 7h 30m | 1,602 | 3,892 |
| 9 | August 16, 2017 21:30 | August 17, 2017 04:00 | 6h 30m | 1,461 | 2,517 |
| 10 | October 7, 2017 02:30 | October 8, 2017 12:00 | 1d 9h | 1,354 | 4,248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 65 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Potter 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 |
| Rita Blanca 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 ÷ 38,898 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county