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2020 Culberson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Culberson County, TX went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 254 Texas counties and 666th 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 Culberson 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 11:00 | October 28, 2020 04:45 | 17h 45m | 1,231 | 2,363 |
| 2 | August 17, 2020 23:30 | August 19, 2020 02:30 | 1d 3h | 1,210 | 3,489 |
| 3 | July 19, 2020 03:45 | July 19, 2020 07:45 | 4h | 745 | 389 |
| 4 | August 19, 2020 14:30 | August 19, 2020 16:45 | 2h 15m | 733 | 186 |
| 5 | July 24, 2020 14:15 | July 24, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 730 | 183 |
| 6 | June 24, 2020 05:00 | June 25, 2020 15:30 | 1d 10h | 245 | 737 |
| 7 | June 19, 2020 22:45 | June 20, 2020 02:00 | 3h 15m | 225 | 267 |
| 8 | August 6, 2020 22:45 | August 7, 2020 02:45 | 4h | 225 | 64 |
| 9 | December 1, 2020 22:45 | December 1, 2020 23:45 | 1h | 191 | 82 |
| 10 | March 5, 2020 14:45 | March 5, 2020 15:30 | 45m | 106 | 53 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 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 Culberson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 9.8 hrs | - | 8.2 hrs | - |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 |
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 ÷ 1,000 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. Culberson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Culberson 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/culberson-county