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2018 Howard County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Howard County, TX went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 177th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1743rd 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 Howard 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 | April 10, 2018 04:45 | April 10, 2018 07:30 | 2h 45m | 5,866 | 8,805 |
| 2 | May 7, 2018 17:45 | May 8, 2018 22:15 | 1d 4h | 4,529 | 44K |
| 3 | February 23, 2018 11:45 | February 23, 2018 12:15 | 30m | 2,228 | 559 |
| 4 | June 17, 2018 08:00 | June 17, 2018 19:00 | 11h | 1,178 | 5,584 |
| 5 | August 29, 2018 18:15 | August 29, 2018 19:30 | 1h 15m | 893 | 620 |
| 6 | November 26, 2018 18:30 | November 26, 2018 22:15 | 3h 45m | 889 | 2,669 |
| 7 | May 17, 2018 13:00 | May 17, 2018 22:00 | 9h | 888 | 422 |
| 8 | February 23, 2018 19:15 | February 24, 2018 00:00 | 4h 45m | 878 | 307 |
| 9 | November 20, 2018 14:30 | November 20, 2018 20:00 | 5h 30m | 798 | 221 |
| 10 | October 18, 2018 22:15 | October 19, 2018 04:00 | 5h 45m | 779 | 227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 40 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 Howard 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | - | 3.1 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 43,808 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. Howard County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county