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2020 Carson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carson County, TX went without power for an average of 60.9 hours, a total of 255K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 254 Texas counties and 129th 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 Carson 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 | October 28, 2020 05:30 | December 4, 2020 20:45 | 37d 15h | 4,374 | 241K |
| 2 | July 14, 2020 19:45 | July 15, 2020 00:00 | 4h 15m | 2,301 | 2,952 |
| 3 | August 30, 2020 01:45 | August 31, 2020 03:00 | 1d 1h | 547 | 2,502 |
| 4 | December 10, 2020 19:45 | December 10, 2020 22:00 | 2h 15m | 539 | 944 |
| 5 | May 21, 2020 00:30 | May 21, 2020 03:00 | 2h 30m | 536 | 1,228 |
| 6 | August 27, 2020 03:30 | August 27, 2020 05:30 | 2h | 168 | 302 |
| 7 | October 21, 2020 16:45 | October 21, 2020 20:45 | 4h | 147 | 69 |
| 8 | July 14, 2020 12:30 | July 14, 2020 18:45 | 6h 15m | 127 | 65 |
| 9 | June 20, 2020 10:15 | June 20, 2020 19:00 | 8h 45m | 126 | 209 |
| 10 | May 8, 2020 04:30 | May 8, 2020 07:00 | 2h 30m | 119 | 146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Carson 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 Public Service Co | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
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 ÷ 4,187 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. Carson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carson 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/carson-county