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2020 Wichita County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wichita County, TX went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 217K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 214th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2097th 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 Wichita 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 27, 2020 10:45 | November 2, 2020 21:30 | 6d 10h | 6,856 | 53K |
| 2 | November 12, 2020 22:45 | November 13, 2020 02:15 | 3h 30m | 3,464 | 6,873 |
| 3 | June 5, 2020 03:00 | June 6, 2020 06:15 | 1d 3h | 3,285 | 4,431 |
| 4 | August 17, 2020 00:30 | August 19, 2020 05:00 | 2d 4h | 3,118 | 40K |
| 5 | June 18, 2020 18:15 | June 19, 2020 03:15 | 9h | 3,056 | 2,336 |
| 6 | July 28, 2020 01:15 | July 29, 2020 03:00 | 1d 1h | 2,889 | 11K |
| 7 | May 21, 2020 12:15 | May 21, 2020 18:30 | 6h 15m | 2,201 | 3,782 |
| 8 | May 22, 2020 18:00 | May 24, 2020 02:45 | 1d 8h | 2,187 | 14K |
| 9 | October 26, 2020 12:30 | October 26, 2020 19:00 | 6h 30m | 1,924 | 703 |
| 10 | March 28, 2020 09:30 | March 29, 2020 01:30 | 16h | 1,796 | 4,595 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 91 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Wichita 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 Rural Elec Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Electra - (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 ÷ 90,763 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. Wichita County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wichita 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/wichita-county