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2020 Castro County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Castro County, TX went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 131st worst of 254 Texas counties and 1066th 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 Castro 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 | August 19, 2020 05:30 | August 19, 2020 07:45 | 2h 15m | 3,694 | 6,085 |
| 2 | October 28, 2020 14:15 | November 3, 2020 14:45 | 6d | 946 | 4,978 |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 23:15 | October 28, 2020 12:45 | 13h 30m | 775 | 10K |
| 4 | September 16, 2020 21:45 | September 16, 2020 23:00 | 1h 15m | 543 | 679 |
| 5 | March 30, 2020 22:30 | March 31, 2020 00:00 | 1h 30m | 541 | 812 |
| 6 | December 4, 2020 16:00 | December 4, 2020 21:15 | 5h 15m | 372 | 1,228 |
| 7 | May 20, 2020 00:00 | May 20, 2020 13:00 | 13h | 272 | 3,062 |
| 8 | November 22, 2020 16:15 | November 22, 2020 19:30 | 3h 15m | 236 | 679 |
| 9 | May 7, 2020 21:45 | May 7, 2020 22:15 | 30m | 234 | 117 |
| 10 | May 20, 2020 21:45 | May 21, 2020 02:15 | 4h 30m | 233 | 279 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Castro 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 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 3.50 | 5.5 hrs | 3.50 |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,080 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. Castro County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Castro 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/castro-county