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2018 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 215th worst of 253 Texas counties and 2151st 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 Hale 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 | March 8, 2018 21:45 | March 8, 2018 23:30 | 1h 45m | 1,443 | 1,804 |
| 2 | May 16, 2018 02:15 | May 16, 2018 21:00 | 18h 45m | 1,246 | 4,290 |
| 3 | July 14, 2018 18:30 | July 14, 2018 19:30 | 1h | 1,129 | 1,129 |
| 4 | August 17, 2018 20:30 | August 17, 2018 21:45 | 1h 15m | 1,125 | 564 |
| 5 | December 13, 2018 11:45 | December 14, 2018 03:45 | 16h | 794 | 1,816 |
| 6 | June 22, 2018 14:30 | June 22, 2018 19:15 | 4h 45m | 740 | 664 |
| 7 | April 12, 2018 17:15 | April 12, 2018 20:45 | 3h 30m | 698 | 538 |
| 8 | January 11, 2018 21:00 | January 11, 2018 22:30 | 1h 30m | 658 | 658 |
| 9 | April 30, 2018 04:00 | April 30, 2018 05:45 | 1h 45m | 654 | 869 |
| 10 | April 30, 2018 06:45 | April 30, 2018 08:00 | 1h 15m | 612 | 158 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Hale 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 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county