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2019 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 354K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 254 Texas counties and 403rd 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 Rusk 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 18, 2019 20:45 | August 19, 2019 22:15 | 1d 1h | 13,290 | 65K |
| 2 | May 7, 2019 09:15 | May 8, 2019 01:15 | 16h | 3,800 | 8,365 |
| 3 | June 19, 2019 11:15 | June 22, 2019 01:45 | 2d 14h | 3,431 | 26K |
| 4 | June 23, 2019 12:00 | June 27, 2019 03:15 | 3d 15h | 2,714 | 8,434 |
| 5 | July 10, 2019 13:00 | July 13, 2019 01:00 | 2d 12h | 2,462 | 15K |
| 6 | March 14, 2019 08:15 | March 17, 2019 14:45 | 3d 6h | 2,421 | 69K |
| 7 | May 8, 2019 17:45 | May 13, 2019 01:15 | 4d 7h | 2,201 | 30K |
| 8 | October 20, 2019 22:45 | October 22, 2019 16:00 | 1d 17h | 1,746 | 14K |
| 9 | April 18, 2019 08:45 | April 19, 2019 16:30 | 1d 7h | 1,651 | 7,873 |
| 10 | October 16, 2019 05:30 | October 16, 2019 08:00 | 2h 30m | 1,421 | 362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 83 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Rusk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 9.7 hrs | - | 7.1 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 12.8 hrs | - | 10.7 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county