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2020 Ward County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ward County, TX went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 167th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1523rd 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 Ward 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 | February 12, 2020 01:30 | February 12, 2020 14:30 | 13h | 2,153 | 5,436 |
| 2 | October 27, 2020 22:30 | October 28, 2020 04:45 | 6h 15m | 1,277 | 2,458 |
| 3 | November 23, 2020 13:00 | November 24, 2020 09:15 | 20h 15m | 1,221 | 1,304 |
| 4 | December 20, 2020 22:15 | December 20, 2020 23:15 | 1h | 689 | 517 |
| 5 | November 20, 2020 16:15 | November 20, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 569 | 142 |
| 6 | January 13, 2020 18:45 | January 14, 2020 02:30 | 7h 45m | 543 | 194 |
| 7 | December 21, 2020 01:45 | December 21, 2020 02:00 | 15m | 461 | 115 |
| 8 | September 8, 2020 22:30 | September 10, 2020 05:15 | 1d 6h | 403 | 3,987 |
| 9 | June 24, 2020 05:00 | June 25, 2020 19:15 | 1d 14h | 296 | 1,429 |
| 10 | May 28, 2020 20:15 | May 28, 2020 20:30 | 15m | 266 | 67 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 44 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ward 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 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,555 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. Ward County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county