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2020 Bowie County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bowie County, TX went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 336K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 203rd worst of 254 Texas counties and 1919th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bowie County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 26, 2020 18:00 | June 27, 2020 06:30 | 12h 30m | 6,592 | 4,776 |
| 2 | January 5, 2020 15:00 | January 6, 2020 04:30 | 13h 30m | 5,795 | 3,766 |
| 3 | May 5, 2020 12:00 | May 5, 2020 23:00 | 11h | 5,661 | 7,634 |
| 4 | August 9, 2020 12:00 | August 9, 2020 15:00 | 3h | 5,421 | 9,404 |
| 5 | April 12, 2020 12:30 | April 14, 2020 02:00 | 1d 13h | 5,331 | 9,274 |
| 6 | July 11, 2020 23:45 | July 13, 2020 01:30 | 1d 1h | 5,147 | 2,185 |
| 7 | May 8, 2020 09:15 | May 10, 2020 17:45 | 2d 8h | 5,036 | 49K |
| 8 | April 23, 2020 06:45 | April 24, 2020 21:15 | 1d 14h | 5,000 | 49K |
| 9 | August 30, 2020 03:45 | August 31, 2020 17:45 | 1d 14h | 3,803 | 12K |
| 10 | June 1, 2020 11:15 | June 2, 2020 04:00 | 16h 45m | 3,441 | 5,454 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 114 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Bowie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 Electric Power Co | 2020 | 26.5 hrs | 2.79 | 4.6 hrs | 1.94 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 1.53 | 3.1 hrs | 1.21 |
| Bowie-Cass 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 63% of Texas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 116,979 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. Bowie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowie County, TX annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/texas/bowie-county