County annual report · FIPS 48483
2017 Wheeler County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wheeler County, TX went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 5,585 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1513th 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 Wheeler 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 22, 2017 18:45 | May 22, 2017 22:45 | 4h | 638 | 360 |
| 2 | May 16, 2017 23:00 | May 17, 2017 05:45 | 6h 45m | 316 | 947 |
| 3 | January 14, 2017 23:45 | January 15, 2017 02:15 | 2h 30m | 249 | 253 |
| 4 | March 28, 2017 16:15 | March 28, 2017 20:30 | 4h 15m | 223 | 567 |
| 5 | April 12, 2017 02:30 | April 12, 2017 04:15 | 1h 45m | 199 | 316 |
| 6 | May 11, 2017 12:00 | May 11, 2017 16:45 | 4h 45m | 199 | 326 |
| 7 | May 14, 2017 01:30 | May 14, 2017 05:00 | 3h 30m | 148 | 518 |
| 8 | May 19, 2017 17:00 | May 19, 2017 18:15 | 1h 15m | 115 | 103 |
| 9 | September 25, 2017 10:45 | September 25, 2017 16:45 | 6h | 90 | 53 |
| 10 | October 7, 2017 04:30 | October 7, 2017 10:15 | 5h 45m | 83 | 97 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 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 Wheeler 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2017 | 10.0 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 1.78 |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 2,320 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. Wheeler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wheeler 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/wheeler-county