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2020 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 149K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 105th worst of 254 Texas counties and 815th 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 Hale 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 17:00 | November 10, 2020 18:00 | 14d 1h | 10,794 | 131K |
| 2 | June 4, 2020 13:30 | June 5, 2020 06:15 | 16h 45m | 1,977 | 1,853 |
| 3 | September 9, 2020 10:00 | September 9, 2020 18:30 | 8h 30m | 1,974 | 1,020 |
| 4 | May 9, 2020 21:00 | May 10, 2020 00:00 | 3h | 1,284 | 1,502 |
| 5 | August 11, 2020 04:45 | August 12, 2020 00:15 | 19h 30m | 1,159 | 3,887 |
| 6 | May 12, 2020 02:00 | May 12, 2020 05:30 | 3h 30m | 1,132 | 1,703 |
| 7 | May 11, 2020 21:00 | May 11, 2020 21:45 | 45m | 1,129 | 847 |
| 8 | May 8, 2020 10:45 | May 8, 2020 18:15 | 7h 30m | 765 | 330 |
| 9 | March 27, 2020 12:30 | March 27, 2020 18:15 | 5h 45m | 699 | 534 |
| 10 | January 28, 2020 13:00 | January 28, 2020 14:30 | 1h 30m | 613 | 614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Hale 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 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county