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2019 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 254 Texas counties and 685th 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 Polk 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 | April 13, 2019 14:15 | April 15, 2019 23:45 | 2d 9h | 1,318 | 13K |
| 2 | April 7, 2019 15:30 | April 9, 2019 00:45 | 1d 9h | 1,018 | 3,763 |
| 3 | June 21, 2019 19:00 | June 21, 2019 22:15 | 3h 15m | 861 | 455 |
| 4 | June 23, 2019 19:30 | June 25, 2019 19:00 | 1d 23h | 777 | 3,287 |
| 5 | May 9, 2019 11:45 | May 11, 2019 19:30 | 2d 7h | 757 | 3,220 |
| 6 | May 19, 2019 03:30 | May 21, 2019 00:30 | 1d 21h | 747 | 4,362 |
| 7 | May 31, 2019 15:00 | June 1, 2019 02:15 | 11h 15m | 746 | 2,656 |
| 8 | June 29, 2019 13:00 | June 30, 2019 09:45 | 20h 45m | 726 | 1,118 |
| 9 | December 27, 2019 20:30 | December 27, 2019 22:45 | 2h 15m | 703 | 1,228 |
| 10 | June 16, 2019 15:30 | June 17, 2019 19:30 | 1d 4h | 655 | 1,888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 83 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 1.77 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 7.6 hrs | - | 5.2 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (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 93% of Texas's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,122 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county