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2020 Deaf Smith County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Deaf Smith County, TX went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 127th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1013th 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 Deaf Smith 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 17:30 | November 4, 2020 00:30 | 6d 7h | 4,071 | 22K |
| 2 | August 30, 2020 00:30 | August 31, 2020 16:15 | 1d 15h | 3,837 | 2,865 |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 23:00 | October 28, 2020 12:45 | 13h 45m | 1,629 | 22K |
| 4 | October 28, 2020 14:00 | October 28, 2020 15:15 | 1h 15m | 1,628 | 665 |
| 5 | July 20, 2020 02:45 | July 20, 2020 12:30 | 9h 45m | 1,218 | 1,872 |
| 6 | November 11, 2020 17:15 | November 11, 2020 22:00 | 4h 45m | 1,200 | 1,059 |
| 7 | May 12, 2020 01:30 | May 12, 2020 04:15 | 2h 45m | 1,105 | 1,383 |
| 8 | March 9, 2020 01:15 | March 9, 2020 04:00 | 2h 45m | 1,094 | 1,627 |
| 9 | July 12, 2020 04:45 | July 12, 2020 20:15 | 15h 30m | 584 | 2,650 |
| 10 | June 23, 2020 01:15 | June 23, 2020 19:30 | 18h 15m | 524 | 669 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 79 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Deaf Smith 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,107 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. Deaf Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deaf Smith 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/deaf-smith-county