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County annual report · FIPS 48125

2018 Dickens County, TX Power Outage Report

In 2018, customers in Dickens County, TX went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 2,168 customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 172nd worst of 253 Texas counties and 1700th of 2,798 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
2.4
917 customers
Customer-hours out
2,168
Peak customers out
211
Outages ≥1,000 out
0
0 of 10,000+ · 105 total
Longest outage
11h 30m
began August 17, 2018
Rank in state
172nd/253
1700th of 2,798 US

Compared with TX, the US and 2017

Dickens County, TX average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2018Dickens County 2.4 hours, Texas average 2.4 hours, US average 5.6 hours, Dickens County, 2017 0.1 hoursDickens CountyDickens County2.4hTexas averageTexas average2.4hUS averageUS average5.6hDickens County, 2017Dickens County, 20170.1h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2018; last bar is this county in 2017.

Month by month

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Dickens County, TX customer-hours without power by month, 2018Jan 178, Feb 146, Mar 237, Apr 79, May 93, Jun 644, Jul 157, Aug 155, Sep 38, Oct 48, Nov 89, Dec 3050200400600800178Jan146Feb237Mar79Apr93May644Jun157Jul155Aug38Sep48Oct89Nov305Dec
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Customer-hours; June was the worst month.

Dickens County year over year

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Dickens County, TX: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 3.4h; 2016: no data; 2017: 0.1h; 2018: 2.4h, coverage 90%; 2019: 2.5h, coverage 93%; 2020: 20.6h, coverage 63%; 2021: 2.5h, coverage 94%; 2022: 2.7h, coverage 93%; 2023: 4.7h; 2024: 13.3h; 2025: 17.9h01020300%50%100%3.4h2015n/a20160.1h20172.4h20182.5h201920.6h20202.5h20212.7h20224.7h202313.3h202417.9h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Dickens County, 2018

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1June 10, 2018 23:45June 11, 2018 03:153h 30m211402
2December 13, 2018 18:30December 14, 2018 02:157h 45m161302
3June 30, 2018 03:15June 30, 2018 09:456h 30m46121
4July 5, 2018 12:30July 5, 2018 14:001h 30m4669
5November 24, 2018 17:15November 24, 2018 18:451h 30m2030
6February 25, 2018 13:30February 25, 2018 15:452h 15m1533
7July 6, 2018 20:00July 6, 2018 20:3030m147
8January 8, 2018 21:15January 8, 2018 23:001h 45m1323
9March 19, 2018 14:15March 19, 2018 23:309h 15m1093
10March 20, 2018 14:45March 20, 2018 18:454h1040

Outage episodes by size in 2018: 2 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 Dickens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
AEP Texas North Company20183.0 hrs1.572.3 hrs1.40
South Plains Electric Coop Inc-----
Lighthouse 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 ÷ 917 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. Dickens County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickens 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/dickens-county

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