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2019 Potter County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Potter County, TX went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 526K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 254 Texas counties and 389th 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 Potter 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 | March 13, 2019 03:30 | March 17, 2019 07:00 | 4d 3h | 14,440 | 423K |
| 2 | October 5, 2019 08:30 | October 5, 2019 16:00 | 7h 30m | 6,314 | 15K |
| 3 | November 26, 2019 14:30 | December 6, 2019 23:30 | 10d 9h | 4,656 | 9,518 |
| 4 | November 14, 2019 14:00 | November 14, 2019 18:45 | 4h 45m | 3,789 | 2,161 |
| 5 | June 4, 2019 17:00 | June 5, 2019 11:30 | 18h 30m | 3,738 | 4,652 |
| 6 | July 4, 2019 22:30 | July 5, 2019 01:00 | 2h 30m | 3,386 | 4,233 |
| 7 | February 8, 2019 07:45 | February 8, 2019 12:00 | 4h 15m | 2,897 | 4,793 |
| 8 | June 1, 2019 17:15 | June 3, 2019 11:00 | 1d 17h | 2,628 | 6,770 |
| 9 | September 12, 2019 20:45 | September 13, 2019 05:15 | 8h 30m | 2,611 | 1,512 |
| 10 | October 2, 2019 01:15 | October 2, 2019 10:30 | 9h 15m | 1,617 | 882 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 65 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Potter 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 |
| Rita Blanca 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 ÷ 38,898 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county