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2018 Rains County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rains County, TX went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 4,578 customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 227th worst of 253 Texas counties and 2363rd 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 Rains 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 | September 20, 2018 04:00 | September 20, 2018 12:00 | 8h | 252 | 1,210 |
| 2 | September 8, 2018 00:00 | September 8, 2018 03:45 | 3h 45m | 250 | 876 |
| 3 | November 19, 2018 09:15 | November 19, 2018 13:15 | 4h | 120 | 480 |
| 4 | September 22, 2018 15:00 | September 22, 2018 19:15 | 4h 15m | 49 | 208 |
| 5 | January 3, 2018 11:45 | January 3, 2018 20:15 | 8h 30m | 48 | 408 |
| 6 | December 26, 2018 23:45 | December 27, 2018 05:30 | 5h 45m | 48 | 225 |
| 7 | July 25, 2018 21:45 | July 26, 2018 01:45 | 4h | 47 | 188 |
| 8 | July 6, 2018 18:30 | July 7, 2018 04:30 | 10h | 36 | 328 |
| 9 | April 21, 2018 20:30 | April 22, 2018 00:45 | 4h 15m | 32 | 81 |
| 10 | December 1, 2018 06:30 | December 1, 2018 11:45 | 5h 15m | 31 | 107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Rains 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 Electric Power Co | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 2.14 | 4.2 hrs | 1.96 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | 2018 | 84 min | 1.19 | 84 min | 1.19 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 7.9 hrs | 3.24 | 3.1 hrs | 1.99 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,322 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. Rains County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rains 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/rains-county