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2018 Hutchinson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hutchinson County, TX went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 108th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1110th 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 Hutchinson 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 14, 2018 13:00 | May 14, 2018 18:00 | 5h | 2,477 | 3,726 |
| 2 | June 8, 2018 03:15 | June 8, 2018 04:30 | 1h 15m | 1,022 | 965 |
| 3 | September 9, 2018 22:15 | September 10, 2018 03:45 | 5h 30m | 809 | 258 |
| 4 | June 23, 2018 01:30 | June 24, 2018 16:15 | 1d 14h | 492 | 2,331 |
| 5 | March 23, 2018 19:45 | April 2, 2018 20:00 | 10d | 490 | 4,167 |
| 6 | October 28, 2018 11:15 | October 28, 2018 17:30 | 6h 15m | 484 | 893 |
| 7 | October 29, 2018 00:30 | October 29, 2018 00:45 | 15m | 484 | 121 |
| 8 | July 29, 2018 09:30 | July 29, 2018 17:00 | 7h 30m | 420 | 511 |
| 9 | November 12, 2018 15:00 | November 12, 2018 17:00 | 2h | 419 | 531 |
| 10 | March 19, 2018 01:00 | March 19, 2018 02:45 | 1h 45m | 396 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 32 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Hutchinson 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 |
| Rita Blanca Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 6,978 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county