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2018 Gaines County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Gaines County, TX went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 111th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1137th 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 Gaines 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 | July 2, 2018 21:15 | July 4, 2018 05:00 | 1d 7h | 2,899 | 11K |
| 2 | September 1, 2018 22:15 | September 2, 2018 12:30 | 14h 15m | 2,602 | 13K |
| 3 | June 4, 2018 04:15 | June 5, 2018 12:00 | 1d 7h | 2,103 | 17K |
| 4 | September 4, 2018 03:45 | September 4, 2018 11:15 | 7h 30m | 1,708 | 3,001 |
| 5 | December 8, 2018 03:15 | December 8, 2018 06:00 | 2h 45m | 1,344 | 996 |
| 6 | August 9, 2018 05:30 | August 9, 2018 08:15 | 2h 45m | 1,312 | 1,260 |
| 7 | June 29, 2018 23:30 | June 30, 2018 03:00 | 3h 30m | 1,094 | 888 |
| 8 | October 28, 2018 11:15 | October 28, 2018 18:15 | 7h | 1,032 | 5,359 |
| 9 | July 6, 2018 13:00 | July 6, 2018 19:30 | 6h 30m | 909 | 915 |
| 10 | July 13, 2018 03:15 | July 13, 2018 04:00 | 45m | 907 | 230 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 30 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Gaines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.08 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | - | 3.1 hrs | - |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,871 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. Gaines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaines 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/gaines-county