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2018 Franklin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, TX went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 253 Texas counties and 972nd 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 Franklin 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 | May 9, 2018 15:15 | May 9, 2018 18:15 | 3h | 3,685 | 1,950 |
| 2 | July 12, 2018 20:30 | July 13, 2018 14:15 | 17h 45m | 1,915 | 1,091 |
| 3 | July 7, 2018 12:15 | July 7, 2018 12:30 | 15m | 1,823 | 456 |
| 4 | August 12, 2018 16:45 | August 13, 2018 02:30 | 9h 45m | 1,803 | 4,426 |
| 5 | November 13, 2018 01:45 | November 13, 2018 05:30 | 3h 45m | 1,788 | 1,079 |
| 6 | July 28, 2018 12:45 | July 28, 2018 13:45 | 1h | 1,403 | 354 |
| 7 | July 28, 2018 15:15 | July 28, 2018 16:30 | 1h 15m | 1,403 | 707 |
| 8 | January 17, 2018 07:00 | January 17, 2018 17:00 | 10h | 1,392 | 1,692 |
| 9 | July 2, 2018 18:00 | July 3, 2018 00:15 | 6h 15m | 1,207 | 2,756 |
| 10 | March 10, 2018 06:15 | March 10, 2018 09:00 | 2h 45m | 749 | 1,229 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Franklin 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | 2018 | 84 min | 1.19 | 84 min | 1.19 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 7.9 hrs | 3.24 | 3.1 hrs | 1.99 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 5,481 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county