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2021 Childress County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Childress County, TX went without power for an average of 31.2 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 252 Texas counties and 288th 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 Childress 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 27, 2021 17:45 | April 27, 2021 19:30 | 1h 45m | 2,832 | 4,372 |
| 2 | September 30, 2021 23:00 | October 1, 2021 03:45 | 4h 45m | 2,831 | 10K |
| 3 | February 15, 2021 09:45 | February 18, 2021 06:00 | 2d 20h | 1,018 | 56K |
| 4 | March 25, 2021 23:30 | March 26, 2021 00:45 | 1h 15m | 833 | 834 |
| 5 | December 29, 2021 14:30 | December 29, 2021 20:45 | 6h 15m | 370 | 225 |
| 6 | February 24, 2021 15:45 | February 24, 2021 16:00 | 15m | 299 | 75 |
| 7 | July 25, 2021 23:30 | July 26, 2021 03:15 | 3h 45m | 124 | 313 |
| 8 | March 13, 2021 07:15 | March 13, 2021 08:45 | 1h 30m | 121 | 150 |
| 9 | February 5, 2021 07:00 | February 5, 2021 09:45 | 2h 45m | 115 | 289 |
| 10 | July 5, 2021 14:00 | July 5, 2021 16:15 | 2h 15m | 75 | 148 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 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 Childress 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2021 | 31.7 hrs | 3.36 | 3.1 hrs | 1.61 |
| AEP Texas North Company | 2021 | 18.9 hrs | 2.72 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2021 | 11.8 hrs | 2.41 | 5.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harmon Electric Assn 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 ÷ 2,451 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. Childress County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Childress 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/childress-county