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2020 Gaines County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gaines County, TX went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 80K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 154th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1275th 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 Gaines 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 | June 17, 2020 23:30 | June 19, 2020 00:45 | 1d 1h | 2,948 | 9,751 |
| 2 | August 12, 2020 22:00 | August 13, 2020 07:00 | 9h | 1,526 | 847 |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 11:00 | October 30, 2020 20:30 | 3d 9h | 1,423 | 28K |
| 4 | January 2, 2020 22:45 | January 3, 2020 02:15 | 3h 30m | 1,249 | 1,138 |
| 5 | June 19, 2020 21:45 | June 21, 2020 17:30 | 1d 19h | 1,244 | 31K |
| 6 | June 22, 2020 15:30 | June 22, 2020 21:00 | 5h 30m | 718 | 224 |
| 7 | July 20, 2020 13:30 | July 20, 2020 19:30 | 6h | 495 | 350 |
| 8 | February 2, 2020 02:30 | February 2, 2020 05:15 | 2h 45m | 253 | 609 |
| 9 | July 31, 2020 00:15 | July 31, 2020 01:45 | 1h 30m | 242 | 184 |
| 10 | January 18, 2020 15:45 | January 18, 2020 16:30 | 45m | 231 | 138 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Gaines 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 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 18.9 hrs | - | 2.9 hrs | - |
| Lea County 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 ÷ 13,871 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. Gaines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaines 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/gaines-county