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2020 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 317K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 254 Texas counties and 670th 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 Rusk 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 | November 2, 2020 12:00 | November 3, 2020 20:30 | 1d 8h | 10,685 | 30K |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 11:45 | April 17, 2020 14:00 | 5d 2h | 3,461 | 71K |
| 3 | January 11, 2020 05:45 | January 15, 2020 13:00 | 4d 7h | 3,378 | 32K |
| 4 | April 28, 2020 08:00 | May 2, 2020 01:30 | 3d 17h | 2,408 | 24K |
| 5 | July 6, 2020 02:15 | July 8, 2020 02:45 | 2d | 2,297 | 26K |
| 6 | March 4, 2020 12:45 | March 6, 2020 07:00 | 1d 18h | 1,754 | 11K |
| 7 | April 28, 2020 03:15 | April 28, 2020 04:15 | 1h | 1,595 | 1,595 |
| 8 | May 24, 2020 10:00 | May 26, 2020 19:45 | 2d 9h | 1,432 | 12K |
| 9 | November 25, 2020 06:30 | November 25, 2020 20:45 | 14h 15m | 1,351 | 5,098 |
| 10 | August 7, 2020 23:00 | August 8, 2020 04:00 | 5h | 1,200 | 1,516 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 105 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Rusk 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2020 | 26.5 hrs | 2.79 | 4.6 hrs | 1.94 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2020 | 31.1 hrs | 6.17 | 11.3 hrs | 4.72 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | - | 6.9 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 12.4 hrs | - | 7.0 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county