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2021 Bowie County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bowie County, TX went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 460K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 228th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1554th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bowie County, 2021
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 10, 2021 04:15 | April 14, 2021 02:15 | 3d 22h | 14,559 | 215K |
| 2 | May 4, 2021 05:00 | May 6, 2021 04:00 | 1d 23h | 5,174 | 35K |
| 3 | May 18, 2021 12:00 | May 19, 2021 22:00 | 1d 10h | 4,382 | 13K |
| 4 | February 16, 2021 05:00 | February 17, 2021 01:45 | 20h 45m | 3,885 | 14K |
| 5 | August 7, 2021 18:00 | August 7, 2021 18:15 | 15m | 3,660 | 915 |
| 6 | June 25, 2021 12:45 | June 25, 2021 22:15 | 9h 30m | 3,528 | 12K |
| 7 | March 27, 2021 22:15 | March 28, 2021 12:45 | 14h 30m | 2,758 | 1,629 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 04:15 | December 12, 2021 06:45 | 1d 2h | 2,450 | 14K |
| 9 | April 23, 2021 23:30 | April 24, 2021 22:15 | 22h 45m | 2,221 | 9,661 |
| 10 | April 5, 2021 01:00 | April 5, 2021 03:30 | 2h 30m | 2,208 | 4,850 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 129 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Bowie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 11.8 hrs | 2.41 | 5.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| Southwest Arkansas E C C | 2021 | 8.2 hrs | 1.79 | 5.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| Bowie-Cass Electric 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 94% of Texas's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 116,979 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. Bowie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bowie County, TX annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/texas/bowie-county