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2019 Wichita County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wichita County, TX went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 231st worst of 254 Texas counties and 2206th 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 Wichita 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 | January 24, 2019 14:00 | January 24, 2019 17:45 | 3h 45m | 5,796 | 1,463 |
| 2 | March 8, 2019 21:15 | March 9, 2019 01:00 | 3h 45m | 5,796 | 1,464 |
| 3 | April 13, 2019 16:45 | April 15, 2019 06:30 | 1d 13h | 3,664 | 32K |
| 4 | June 14, 2019 08:00 | June 14, 2019 14:15 | 6h 15m | 2,645 | 1,670 |
| 5 | June 15, 2019 17:15 | June 16, 2019 23:30 | 1d 6h | 2,262 | 9,544 |
| 6 | March 13, 2019 07:15 | March 14, 2019 22:15 | 1d 15h | 2,077 | 5,871 |
| 7 | January 3, 2019 09:00 | January 3, 2019 23:00 | 14h | 2,054 | 2,386 |
| 8 | November 30, 2019 16:15 | December 1, 2019 06:45 | 14h 30m | 1,934 | 2,484 |
| 9 | August 27, 2019 09:45 | August 28, 2019 02:30 | 16h 45m | 1,925 | 2,619 |
| 10 | February 23, 2019 17:00 | February 24, 2019 08:45 | 15h 45m | 1,732 | 6,753 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 82 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Wichita 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 |
| AEP Texas North Company | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.57 | 2.3 hrs | 1.40 |
| Southwest Rural Elec Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Electra - (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 ÷ 90,763 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. Wichita County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wichita 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/wichita-county