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2019 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 195th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1688th 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 Hale 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 | October 9, 2019 18:30 | October 9, 2019 21:30 | 3h | 3,567 | 2,205 |
| 2 | October 14, 2019 04:45 | October 14, 2019 10:45 | 6h | 2,340 | 11K |
| 3 | May 21, 2019 16:15 | May 22, 2019 00:00 | 7h 45m | 1,521 | 1,430 |
| 4 | March 31, 2019 09:00 | March 31, 2019 12:45 | 3h 45m | 1,506 | 2,638 |
| 5 | April 30, 2019 09:00 | April 30, 2019 13:45 | 4h 45m | 1,443 | 3,940 |
| 6 | March 12, 2019 17:15 | March 12, 2019 22:00 | 4h 45m | 1,283 | 1,921 |
| 7 | April 10, 2019 20:00 | April 11, 2019 02:15 | 6h 15m | 1,180 | 1,475 |
| 8 | March 9, 2019 00:45 | March 11, 2019 01:45 | 2d 1h | 1,164 | 2,365 |
| 9 | June 3, 2019 12:30 | June 3, 2019 15:30 | 3h | 1,140 | 582 |
| 10 | May 25, 2019 23:00 | May 30, 2019 14:15 | 4d 15h | 867 | 4,210 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 24 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Hale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 1.08 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county