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2019 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 604K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 227th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2173rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in El Paso County, 2019
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 25, 2019 18:30 | August 26, 2019 12:15 | 17h 45m | 15,159 | 20K |
| 2 | August 14, 2019 23:15 | August 15, 2019 21:30 | 22h 15m | 12,209 | 55K |
| 3 | September 10, 2019 15:30 | September 11, 2019 17:45 | 1d 2h | 10,112 | 19K |
| 4 | May 7, 2019 11:00 | May 7, 2019 13:45 | 2h 45m | 9,685 | 16K |
| 5 | August 20, 2019 14:15 | August 21, 2019 02:45 | 12h 30m | 9,244 | 7,926 |
| 6 | November 29, 2019 19:45 | November 30, 2019 03:45 | 8h | 8,725 | 20K |
| 7 | July 11, 2019 19:15 | July 12, 2019 05:30 | 10h 15m | 8,255 | 9,383 |
| 8 | May 26, 2019 00:15 | May 26, 2019 06:45 | 6h 30m | 7,881 | 11K |
| 9 | August 13, 2019 12:45 | August 14, 2019 00:00 | 11h 15m | 7,191 | 9,823 |
| 10 | May 16, 2019 20:15 | May 16, 2019 22:00 | 1h 45m | 6,900 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 211 reached 100+ customers, 91 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 El Paso County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.0 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2018 | 67 min | 0.84 | 67 min | 0.84 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 93% of Texas's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso County, TX annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/texas/el-paso-county