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2020 Howard County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Howard County, TX went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 225th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2317th 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 Howard 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 | July 14, 2020 15:45 | July 14, 2020 16:00 | 15m | 2,242 | 561 |
| 2 | October 27, 2020 10:15 | October 29, 2020 11:00 | 2d | 2,130 | 19K |
| 3 | February 12, 2020 14:15 | February 13, 2020 07:30 | 17h 15m | 1,917 | 7,147 |
| 4 | March 18, 2020 22:00 | March 19, 2020 10:30 | 12h 30m | 1,749 | 1,846 |
| 5 | February 28, 2020 09:15 | February 28, 2020 09:30 | 15m | 1,685 | 421 |
| 6 | May 10, 2020 05:30 | May 10, 2020 06:30 | 1h | 1,155 | 1,152 |
| 7 | June 18, 2020 16:15 | June 20, 2020 09:15 | 1d 17h | 1,126 | 8,017 |
| 8 | August 4, 2020 13:45 | August 4, 2020 22:45 | 9h | 995 | 3,421 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 00:30 | May 28, 2020 05:15 | 4h 45m | 873 | 658 |
| 10 | May 31, 2020 15:15 | May 31, 2020 15:45 | 30m | 871 | 436 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 47 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Howard 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 18.9 hrs | - | 2.9 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 43,808 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. Howard County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county