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2019 Wheeler County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wheeler County, TX went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 7,991 customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 173rd worst of 254 Texas counties and 1491st 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 Wheeler 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 19, 2019 21:30 | October 20, 2019 07:45 | 10h 15m | 604 | 914 |
| 2 | May 24, 2019 06:45 | May 24, 2019 11:00 | 4h 15m | 406 | 1,006 |
| 3 | June 15, 2019 23:30 | June 16, 2019 11:30 | 12h | 230 | 1,546 |
| 4 | October 24, 2019 21:00 | October 24, 2019 23:45 | 2h 45m | 184 | 296 |
| 5 | November 4, 2019 15:30 | November 4, 2019 17:00 | 1h 30m | 140 | 71 |
| 6 | August 17, 2019 13:15 | August 18, 2019 07:15 | 18h | 98 | 192 |
| 7 | March 23, 2019 02:15 | March 23, 2019 11:30 | 9h 15m | 91 | 842 |
| 8 | March 22, 2019 21:15 | March 23, 2019 00:00 | 2h 45m | 70 | 144 |
| 9 | August 25, 2019 09:45 | August 25, 2019 14:30 | 4h 45m | 54 | 100 |
| 10 | April 17, 2019 20:45 | April 18, 2019 00:00 | 3h 15m | 52 | 54 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wheeler 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 2.14 | 4.2 hrs | 1.96 |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 2,320 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. Wheeler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wheeler 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/wheeler-county