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2018 Bowie County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bowie County, TX went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 321K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 163rd worst of 253 Texas counties and 1596th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bowie County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 15, 2018 03:15 | October 16, 2018 20:00 | 1d 16h | 7,301 | 9,716 |
| 2 | May 3, 2018 19:30 | May 4, 2018 11:30 | 16h | 5,886 | 17K |
| 3 | July 5, 2018 11:45 | July 6, 2018 09:00 | 21h 15m | 5,586 | 17K |
| 4 | February 21, 2018 19:15 | February 22, 2018 20:45 | 1d 1h | 5,554 | 6,906 |
| 5 | July 29, 2018 17:15 | July 30, 2018 03:15 | 10h | 2,815 | 1,490 |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 00:45 | April 16, 2018 00:30 | 1d 23h | 2,642 | 18K |
| 7 | December 26, 2018 23:00 | December 27, 2018 22:45 | 23h 45m | 2,558 | 7,647 |
| 8 | December 8, 2018 07:45 | December 9, 2018 02:00 | 18h 15m | 2,490 | 17K |
| 9 | November 18, 2018 13:15 | November 18, 2018 21:15 | 8h | 2,411 | 16K |
| 10 | July 3, 2018 21:45 | July 5, 2018 02:45 | 1d 5h | 2,265 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 152 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 Bowie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 2.14 | 4.2 hrs | 1.96 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.23 | 1.8 hrs | 1.20 |
| Bowie-Cass 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 90% of Texas's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 116,979 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. Bowie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowie County, TX annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/texas/bowie-county