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County annual report · FIPS 48329

2018 Midland County, TX Power Outage Report

In 2018, customers in Midland County, TX went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 238K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 209th worst of 253 Texas counties and 2116th of 2,798 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
1.4
164,550 customers
Customer-hours out
238K
Peak customers out
6,238
Outages ≥1,000 out
27
0 of 10,000+ · 873 total
Longest outage
4d 11h
began October 5, 2018
Rank in state
209th/253
2116th of 2,798 US

Compared with TX, the US and 2017

Midland County, TX average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2018Midland County 1.4 hours, Texas average 2.4 hours, US average 5.6 hours, Midland County, 2017 0.0 hoursMidland CountyMidland County1.4hTexas averageTexas average2.4hUS averageUS average5.6hMidland County, 2017Midland County, 20170.0h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2018; last bar is this county in 2017.

Month by month

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Midland County, TX customer-hours without power by month, 2018Jan 9,360, Feb 1,922, Mar 20K, Apr 8,916, May 18K, Jun 37K, Jul 11K, Aug 26K, Sep 21K, Oct 45K, Nov 20K, Dec 19K020k40k60k9,360Jan1,922Feb20KMar8,916Apr18KMay37KJun11KJul26KAug21KSep45KOct20KNov19KDec
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Customer-hours; October was the worst month.

Midland County year over year

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Midland County, TX: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 2.0h; 2016: no data; 2017: 0.0h; 2018: 1.4h, coverage 90%; 2019: 1.7h, coverage 93%; 2020: 1.3h, coverage 63%; 2021: 13.5h, coverage 94%; 2022: 1.9h, coverage 93%; 2023: 1.9h; 2024: 2.5h; 2025: 1.8h0510150%50%100%2.0h2015n/a20160.0h20171.4h20181.7h20191.3h202013.5h20211.9h20221.9h20232.5h20241.8h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Midland County, 2018

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1December 2, 2018 12:00December 2, 2018 20:008h6,23810K
2October 5, 2018 15:45October 10, 2018 02:454d 11h5,92032K
3June 29, 2018 20:15July 1, 2018 07:301d 11h3,35811K
4August 9, 2018 09:00August 10, 2018 11:451d 2h2,9474,363
5August 17, 2018 15:00August 18, 2018 03:1512h 15m2,6561,879
6August 27, 2018 13:30August 28, 2018 22:301d 9h2,6039,385
7September 14, 2018 13:00September 14, 2018 21:458h 45m2,5243,052
8March 9, 2018 19:45March 10, 2018 20:151d2,3485,556
9May 21, 2018 12:00May 22, 2018 03:4515h 45m2,2801,819
10March 23, 2018 18:45March 24, 2018 03:459h2,0793,377

Outage episodes by size in 2018: 127 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Midland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC20173.4 hrs1.692.4 hrs1.49
Southwestern Public Service Co20182.0 hrs1.081.9 hrs1.06

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 ÷ 164,550 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. Midland County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Midland 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/midland-county

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