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2020 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 546K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 234th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2437th 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 El Paso 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 13, 2020 08:45 | August 14, 2020 11:15 | 1d 2h | 27,034 | 42K |
| 2 | December 22, 2020 21:00 | December 22, 2020 23:45 | 2h 45m | 11,174 | 13K |
| 3 | May 30, 2020 06:00 | May 30, 2020 18:45 | 12h 45m | 8,208 | 18K |
| 4 | December 19, 2020 16:30 | December 19, 2020 18:00 | 1h 30m | 7,665 | 5,755 |
| 5 | November 25, 2020 17:00 | November 25, 2020 17:15 | 15m | 6,734 | 1,684 |
| 6 | June 12, 2020 00:30 | June 12, 2020 19:15 | 18h 45m | 6,701 | 27K |
| 7 | March 27, 2020 15:30 | March 28, 2020 17:30 | 1d 2h | 4,920 | 11K |
| 8 | August 4, 2020 22:30 | August 5, 2020 09:45 | 11h 15m | 4,882 | 5,060 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 20:45 | May 29, 2020 04:00 | 7h 15m | 4,772 | 19K |
| 10 | July 30, 2020 12:00 | July 31, 2020 04:45 | 16h 45m | 4,755 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 202 reached 100+ customers, 74 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county