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2020 Upton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Upton County, TX went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 142nd worst of 254 Texas counties and 1174th 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 Upton 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 | October 14, 2020 23:45 | October 15, 2020 03:30 | 3h 45m | 874 | 1,268 |
| 2 | September 3, 2020 19:15 | September 3, 2020 20:30 | 1h 15m | 518 | 635 |
| 3 | February 10, 2020 15:00 | February 10, 2020 21:30 | 6h 30m | 445 | 609 |
| 4 | February 17, 2020 01:15 | February 17, 2020 11:45 | 10h 30m | 262 | 1,424 |
| 5 | October 26, 2020 21:45 | October 26, 2020 23:45 | 2h | 223 | 261 |
| 6 | December 23, 2020 15:15 | December 23, 2020 23:00 | 7h 45m | 183 | 327 |
| 7 | November 23, 2020 13:45 | November 24, 2020 11:45 | 22h | 165 | 133 |
| 8 | July 6, 2020 04:15 | July 6, 2020 06:15 | 2h | 156 | 234 |
| 9 | March 19, 2020 02:45 | March 20, 2020 17:45 | 1d 15h | 147 | 1,659 |
| 10 | September 9, 2020 02:30 | September 9, 2020 21:45 | 19h 15m | 119 | 688 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Upton 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 |
| AEP Texas North Company | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | 1.67 | 1.9 hrs | 1.25 |
| Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,542 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. Upton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upton 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/upton-county