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2020 Shelby County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Shelby County, TX went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 100th worst of 254 Texas counties and 745th 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 Shelby 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 26, 2020 23:15 | September 1, 2020 23:15 | 6d | 3,727 | 102K |
| 2 | September 2, 2020 09:15 | September 3, 2020 01:30 | 16h 15m | 3,385 | 14K |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 15:30 | October 27, 2020 18:00 | 2h 30m | 2,253 | 804 |
| 4 | May 8, 2020 15:30 | May 8, 2020 20:15 | 4h 45m | 1,934 | 4,686 |
| 5 | December 16, 2020 18:45 | December 16, 2020 21:15 | 2h 30m | 1,017 | 1,525 |
| 6 | February 22, 2020 07:00 | February 22, 2020 18:45 | 11h 45m | 967 | 2,814 |
| 7 | September 30, 2020 13:45 | September 30, 2020 19:00 | 5h 15m | 488 | 1,472 |
| 8 | January 10, 2020 20:30 | January 15, 2020 13:00 | 4d 16h | 344 | 3,707 |
| 9 | April 12, 2020 14:15 | April 13, 2020 03:30 | 13h 15m | 301 | 3,127 |
| 10 | September 21, 2020 14:00 | September 21, 2020 16:00 | 2h | 287 | 567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 33 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Shelby 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 Electric Power Co | 2020 | 26.5 hrs | 2.79 | 4.6 hrs | 1.94 |
| 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 | - |
| City of Timpson - (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 ÷ 14,484 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. Shelby County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Shelby 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/shelby-county