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2020 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 25.3 hours, a total of 282K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 254 Texas counties and 336th 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 Polk 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 | April 22, 2020 16:00 | May 2, 2020 23:00 | 10d 7h | 4,246 | 172K |
| 2 | April 9, 2020 22:15 | April 12, 2020 01:15 | 2d 3h | 3,529 | 24K |
| 3 | August 17, 2020 01:00 | August 18, 2020 01:45 | 1d | 2,125 | 5,878 |
| 4 | January 10, 2020 19:15 | January 12, 2020 07:00 | 1d 11h | 1,357 | 8,459 |
| 5 | August 26, 2020 17:30 | August 29, 2020 04:15 | 2d 10h | 1,309 | 20K |
| 6 | April 19, 2020 16:15 | April 21, 2020 22:00 | 2d 5h | 1,221 | 4,591 |
| 7 | May 24, 2020 17:15 | May 25, 2020 05:45 | 12h 30m | 1,147 | 3,398 |
| 8 | July 6, 2020 23:15 | July 8, 2020 23:30 | 2d | 929 | 1,616 |
| 9 | July 3, 2020 19:15 | July 4, 2020 09:45 | 14h 30m | 911 | 3,757 |
| 10 | May 4, 2020 12:45 | May 5, 2020 23:15 | 1d 10h | 678 | 580 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 62 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 Polk 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 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 13.0 hrs | - | 5.0 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (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 ÷ 11,122 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county