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2018 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 253 Texas counties and 780th 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 Rusk 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 31, 2018 22:00 | June 1, 2018 00:15 | 2h 15m | 4,148 | 9,212 |
| 2 | July 5, 2018 07:00 | July 6, 2018 08:30 | 1d 1h | 3,140 | 27K |
| 3 | March 5, 2018 19:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 5h 30m | 1,932 | 3,316 |
| 4 | April 13, 2018 13:00 | April 19, 2018 17:30 | 6d 4h | 1,760 | 45K |
| 5 | May 20, 2018 22:00 | May 21, 2018 01:00 | 3h | 1,580 | 864 |
| 6 | December 26, 2018 22:15 | December 29, 2018 03:15 | 2d 5h | 1,567 | 11K |
| 7 | April 3, 2018 11:30 | April 4, 2018 19:45 | 1d 8h | 1,115 | 4,497 |
| 8 | November 19, 2018 21:30 | November 20, 2018 04:45 | 7h 15m | 1,059 | 2,401 |
| 9 | September 18, 2018 02:15 | September 18, 2018 02:30 | 15m | 1,027 | 257 |
| 10 | September 8, 2018 21:30 | September 9, 2018 08:45 | 11h 15m | 1,003 | 1,336 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 83 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Rusk 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 2.14 | 4.2 hrs | 1.96 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 20.0 hrs | 5.34 | 10.8 hrs | 4.38 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 9.7 hrs | - | 7.1 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 12.8 hrs | - | 10.7 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county