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2017 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 249 Texas counties and 788th 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 Rusk 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 | February 28, 2017 16:00 | February 28, 2017 16:30 | 30m | 3,132 | 784 |
| 2 | May 28, 2017 21:45 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 4d 10h | 2,757 | 47K |
| 3 | July 1, 2017 18:30 | July 3, 2017 21:45 | 2d 3h | 2,185 | 32K |
| 4 | March 6, 2017 19:00 | March 7, 2017 05:00 | 10h | 1,995 | 4,655 |
| 5 | October 25, 2017 14:15 | October 25, 2017 22:00 | 7h 45m | 1,768 | 474 |
| 6 | June 4, 2017 22:45 | June 5, 2017 00:00 | 1h 15m | 1,218 | 482 |
| 7 | February 20, 2017 10:00 | February 22, 2017 02:45 | 1d 16h | 1,151 | 12K |
| 8 | July 9, 2017 17:45 | July 10, 2017 20:15 | 1d 2h | 1,132 | 4,347 |
| 9 | May 21, 2017 01:45 | May 21, 2017 21:00 | 19h 15m | 1,081 | 1,657 |
| 10 | January 4, 2017 11:15 | January 4, 2017 11:30 | 15m | 1,074 | 269 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 80 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Rusk 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2017 | 10.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2017 | 17.5 hrs | 5.30 | 12.4 hrs | 4.58 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2017 | 9.9 hrs | - | 6.7 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 35.2 hrs | - | 10.4 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county