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2018 Garza County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Garza County, TX went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 4,759 customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 197th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1963rd 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 Garza 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 28, 2018 14:30 | May 28, 2018 17:00 | 2h 30m | 1,999 | 1,753 |
| 2 | June 30, 2018 01:00 | June 30, 2018 08:30 | 7h 30m | 141 | 461 |
| 3 | October 6, 2018 03:45 | October 6, 2018 07:15 | 3h 30m | 111 | 197 |
| 4 | July 20, 2018 20:45 | July 20, 2018 22:45 | 2h | 96 | 167 |
| 5 | May 19, 2018 15:30 | May 19, 2018 18:45 | 3h 15m | 91 | 255 |
| 6 | June 13, 2018 03:45 | June 13, 2018 07:30 | 3h 45m | 69 | 41 |
| 7 | June 3, 2018 21:45 | June 4, 2018 02:45 | 5h | 65 | 193 |
| 8 | May 3, 2018 11:00 | May 3, 2018 18:15 | 7h 15m | 62 | 87 |
| 9 | February 23, 2018 17:45 | February 23, 2018 22:30 | 4h 45m | 61 | 275 |
| 10 | September 14, 2018 14:30 | September 14, 2018 17:00 | 2h 30m | 61 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Garza 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 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 | - |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Country 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 ÷ 2,693 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. Garza County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garza 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/garza-county