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2020 Parmer County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Parmer County, TX went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 163rd worst of 254 Texas counties and 1472nd 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 Parmer 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 19, 2020 00:45 | August 19, 2020 07:15 | 6h 30m | 1,283 | 2,180 |
| 2 | August 20, 2020 16:15 | August 20, 2020 21:45 | 5h 30m | 1,283 | 1,324 |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 01:30 | January 11, 2020 22:15 | 20h 45m | 941 | 2,373 |
| 4 | March 7, 2020 16:15 | March 7, 2020 19:15 | 3h | 916 | 2,074 |
| 5 | June 23, 2020 02:30 | June 23, 2020 05:15 | 2h 45m | 650 | 958 |
| 6 | May 22, 2020 04:45 | May 22, 2020 09:30 | 4h 45m | 490 | 2,324 |
| 7 | May 23, 2020 20:15 | May 24, 2020 00:00 | 3h 45m | 487 | 491 |
| 8 | August 13, 2020 18:30 | August 13, 2020 20:15 | 1h 45m | 479 | 838 |
| 9 | July 24, 2020 01:45 | July 28, 2020 22:30 | 4d 20h | 466 | 642 |
| 10 | March 8, 2020 14:15 | March 8, 2020 17:45 | 3h 30m | 416 | 1,155 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Parmer 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 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 3.50 | 5.5 hrs | 3.50 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,651 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. Parmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Parmer 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/parmer-county