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2020 Garza County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Garza County, TX went without power for an average of 26.9 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 254 Texas counties and 314th 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 Garza 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 02:00 | November 20, 2020 23:00 | 23d 21h | 2,365 | 44K |
| 2 | June 5, 2020 03:15 | June 10, 2020 21:30 | 5d 18h | 2,170 | 22K |
| 3 | July 22, 2020 20:30 | July 23, 2020 15:45 | 19h 15m | 1,220 | 1,462 |
| 4 | March 17, 2020 17:30 | March 17, 2020 23:30 | 6h | 743 | 999 |
| 5 | February 4, 2020 21:15 | February 4, 2020 22:15 | 1h | 218 | 218 |
| 6 | February 19, 2020 20:30 | February 19, 2020 21:45 | 1h 15m | 218 | 55 |
| 7 | August 7, 2020 14:15 | August 7, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 142 | 36 |
| 8 | May 12, 2020 04:00 | May 12, 2020 08:00 | 4h | 115 | 222 |
| 9 | June 23, 2020 05:45 | June 23, 2020 17:30 | 11h 45m | 74 | 216 |
| 10 | June 17, 2020 20:30 | June 17, 2020 22:30 | 2h | 69 | 121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Garza 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 18.9 hrs | - | 2.9 hrs | - |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Country Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 2,693 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. Garza County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garza 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/garza-county