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2017 Upshur County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Upshur County, TX went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1078th 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 Upshur 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 28, 2017 21:45 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 4d 10h | 1,928 | 37K |
| 2 | April 28, 2017 12:15 | April 28, 2017 13:00 | 45m | 1,553 | 1,164 |
| 3 | July 9, 2017 10:45 | July 9, 2017 19:00 | 8h 15m | 1,023 | 2,394 |
| 4 | August 23, 2017 22:00 | August 24, 2017 07:00 | 9h | 942 | 689 |
| 5 | December 8, 2017 19:45 | December 8, 2017 23:15 | 3h 30m | 931 | 3,256 |
| 6 | May 11, 2017 23:00 | May 12, 2017 23:30 | 1d | 786 | 4,952 |
| 7 | July 1, 2017 19:00 | July 3, 2017 00:45 | 1d 5h | 693 | 4,766 |
| 8 | June 30, 2017 04:00 | June 30, 2017 14:15 | 10h 15m | 646 | 898 |
| 9 | March 13, 2017 16:00 | March 13, 2017 17:15 | 1h 15m | 633 | 791 |
| 10 | September 27, 2017 15:30 | September 27, 2017 21:45 | 6h 15m | 572 | 566 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 37 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Upshur 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 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 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.76 | 2.9 hrs | 1.71 |
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 ÷ 18,224 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county