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2020 Newton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newton County, TX went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 120th worst of 254 Texas counties and 965th 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 Newton 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 6, 2020 20:00 | October 21, 2020 15:30 | 14d 19h | 138 | 13K |
| 2 | September 17, 2020 01:15 | September 23, 2020 22:45 | 6d 21h | 63 | 5,308 |
| 3 | September 14, 2020 17:15 | September 16, 2020 23:45 | 2d 6h | 47 | 2,269 |
| 4 | October 22, 2020 16:30 | October 30, 2020 17:00 | 8d | 45 | 3,639 |
| 5 | October 30, 2020 19:00 | November 5, 2020 15:00 | 5d 20h | 45 | 2,522 |
| 6 | September 14, 2020 14:15 | September 14, 2020 15:45 | 1h 30m | 43 | 65 |
| 7 | September 24, 2020 00:00 | October 1, 2020 22:30 | 7d 22h | 34 | 4,127 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 07:00 | January 11, 2020 13:45 | 6h 45m | 22 | 73 |
| 9 | October 21, 2020 19:15 | October 22, 2020 15:15 | 20h | 18 | 360 |
| 10 | February 4, 2020 13:15 | February 4, 2020 14:15 | 1h | 17 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2020 | 42.3 hrs | 3.27 | 4.6 hrs | 1.74 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | - | 6.9 hrs | - |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 128.3 hrs | 6.06 | 14.2 hrs | 3.31 |
| City of Newton - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,202 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county