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2020 Childress County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Childress County, TX went without power for an average of 35.6 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 254 Texas counties and 229th 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 Childress 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 27, 2020 14:15 | October 30, 2020 23:15 | 3d 9h | 2,919 | 70K |
| 2 | September 16, 2020 12:00 | September 16, 2020 15:00 | 3h | 2,772 | 8,108 |
| 3 | September 16, 2020 21:45 | September 16, 2020 22:15 | 30m | 2,770 | 1,257 |
| 4 | April 7, 2020 15:15 | April 7, 2020 22:00 | 6h 45m | 788 | 808 |
| 5 | June 7, 2020 21:30 | June 7, 2020 22:15 | 45m | 754 | 385 |
| 6 | July 5, 2020 00:00 | July 5, 2020 04:45 | 4h 45m | 660 | 910 |
| 7 | November 25, 2020 01:30 | November 25, 2020 04:15 | 2h 45m | 546 | 566 |
| 8 | August 12, 2020 23:15 | August 13, 2020 01:00 | 1h 45m | 114 | 172 |
| 9 | May 8, 2020 16:30 | May 8, 2020 21:00 | 4h 30m | 113 | 314 |
| 10 | May 24, 2020 20:30 | May 24, 2020 22:00 | 1h 30m | 107 | 161 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Childress 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2020 | 8.6 hrs | 1.88 | 2.8 hrs | 1.47 |
| AEP Texas North Company | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | 1.67 | 1.9 hrs | 1.25 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2020 | 26.5 hrs | 2.79 | 4.6 hrs | 1.94 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harmon Electric Assn 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 ÷ 2,451 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. Childress County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Childress 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/childress-county