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2018 Upshur County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Upshur County, TX went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 130th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1369th 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 Upshur 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 | October 9, 2018 03:30 | October 9, 2018 16:00 | 12h 30m | 2,041 | 6,017 |
| 2 | May 5, 2018 11:00 | May 5, 2018 11:15 | 15m | 1,535 | 384 |
| 3 | March 3, 2018 03:00 | March 3, 2018 05:30 | 2h 30m | 1,024 | 2,560 |
| 4 | March 3, 2018 07:15 | March 3, 2018 07:45 | 30m | 1,024 | 257 |
| 5 | January 2, 2018 15:00 | January 2, 2018 18:30 | 3h 30m | 1,023 | 3,458 |
| 6 | July 29, 2018 18:15 | July 29, 2018 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,011 | 587 |
| 7 | November 9, 2018 08:45 | November 9, 2018 15:15 | 6h 30m | 971 | 3,828 |
| 8 | June 5, 2018 14:45 | June 6, 2018 07:00 | 16h 15m | 967 | 3,180 |
| 9 | April 6, 2018 23:15 | April 7, 2018 08:15 | 9h | 873 | 2,508 |
| 10 | April 14, 2018 00:45 | April 16, 2018 19:30 | 2d 18h | 774 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Upshur 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 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2018 | 20.0 hrs | 5.34 | 10.8 hrs | 4.38 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 7.9 hrs | 3.24 | 3.1 hrs | 1.99 |
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 ÷ 18,224 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county