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2020 Upshur County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Upshur County, TX went without power for an average of 32.6 hours, a total of 594K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 254 Texas counties and 251st 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 Upshur 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 12, 2020 10:30 | April 17, 2020 21:00 | 5d 10h | 12,738 | 452K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 19:00 | July 22, 2020 04:30 | 9h 30m | 4,574 | 5,093 |
| 3 | June 23, 2020 21:45 | June 25, 2020 04:45 | 1d 7h | 2,606 | 6,309 |
| 4 | November 2, 2020 06:15 | November 2, 2020 12:00 | 5h 45m | 2,313 | 7,251 |
| 5 | April 29, 2020 05:15 | May 1, 2020 00:15 | 1d 19h | 2,033 | 9,637 |
| 6 | May 7, 2020 23:45 | May 9, 2020 14:00 | 1d 14h | 1,702 | 9,127 |
| 7 | May 24, 2020 16:45 | May 26, 2020 22:30 | 2d 5h | 1,381 | 11K |
| 8 | November 1, 2020 13:15 | November 2, 2020 00:15 | 11h | 1,220 | 1,763 |
| 9 | April 22, 2020 00:30 | April 22, 2020 05:15 | 4h 45m | 1,216 | 948 |
| 10 | March 31, 2020 13:45 | March 31, 2020 17:15 | 3h 30m | 1,202 | 1,459 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 91 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Upshur 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 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2020 | 31.1 hrs | 6.17 | 11.3 hrs | 4.72 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 13.4 hrs | 4.62 | 3.3 hrs | 2.27 |
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 ÷ 18,224 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county