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2018 Parmer County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Parmer County, TX went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 9,460 customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 218th worst of 253 Texas counties and 2217th 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 Parmer 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 | August 16, 2018 03:00 | August 16, 2018 11:30 | 8h 30m | 2,181 | 5,601 |
| 2 | April 6, 2018 12:30 | April 6, 2018 13:15 | 45m | 1,707 | 1,280 |
| 3 | August 25, 2018 23:45 | August 26, 2018 03:00 | 3h 15m | 475 | 1,416 |
| 4 | August 26, 2018 10:00 | August 26, 2018 10:15 | 15m | 174 | 44 |
| 5 | September 10, 2018 05:15 | September 10, 2018 07:00 | 1h 45m | 119 | 208 |
| 6 | July 12, 2018 05:30 | July 12, 2018 07:45 | 2h 15m | 96 | 184 |
| 7 | June 13, 2018 11:45 | June 13, 2018 15:45 | 4h | 51 | 140 |
| 8 | April 24, 2018 23:15 | April 25, 2018 00:30 | 1h 15m | 41 | 51 |
| 9 | June 14, 2018 08:30 | June 14, 2018 14:45 | 6h 15m | 41 | 100 |
| 10 | September 25, 2018 11:30 | September 25, 2018 13:15 | 1h 45m | 23 | 19 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 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 Parmer 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 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 10.1 hrs | 2.60 | 10.1 hrs | 2.60 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,651 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. Parmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Parmer 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/parmer-county