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2020 Hutchinson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hutchinson County, TX went without power for an average of 18.7 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 254 Texas counties and 461st 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 Hutchinson 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 27, 2020 03:30 | August 27, 2020 05:30 | 2h | 2,521 | 4,507 |
| 2 | October 28, 2020 03:15 | November 7, 2020 23:30 | 10d 20h | 1,998 | 101K |
| 3 | October 22, 2020 20:45 | October 22, 2020 21:30 | 45m | 1,389 | 348 |
| 4 | July 27, 2020 19:00 | July 28, 2020 01:45 | 6h 45m | 1,278 | 1,933 |
| 5 | December 4, 2020 18:00 | December 4, 2020 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,177 | 1,766 |
| 6 | August 12, 2020 23:15 | August 13, 2020 01:15 | 2h | 1,158 | 2,258 |
| 7 | July 17, 2020 22:00 | July 18, 2020 06:15 | 8h 15m | 921 | 991 |
| 8 | November 9, 2020 02:15 | November 9, 2020 23:15 | 21h | 883 | 3,015 |
| 9 | June 29, 2020 20:30 | June 30, 2020 00:45 | 4h 15m | 866 | 1,384 |
| 10 | June 23, 2020 01:30 | June 23, 2020 09:00 | 7h 30m | 845 | 1,551 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 22 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Hutchinson 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 |
| Rita Blanca Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 6,978 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county