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2021 Deaf Smith County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Deaf Smith County, TX went without power for an average of 15.6 hours, a total of 189K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 165th worst of 252 Texas counties and 548th 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 Deaf Smith 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 | February 16, 2021 13:00 | February 16, 2021 23:30 | 10h 30m | 7,399 | 12K |
| 2 | August 12, 2021 23:00 | August 14, 2021 04:15 | 1d 5h | 2,161 | 12K |
| 3 | March 17, 2021 02:30 | March 19, 2021 12:30 | 2d 10h | 1,992 | 7,759 |
| 4 | July 1, 2021 23:00 | July 2, 2021 21:15 | 22h 15m | 1,902 | 23K |
| 5 | July 19, 2021 18:15 | July 19, 2021 21:30 | 3h 15m | 1,755 | 444 |
| 6 | July 15, 2021 23:15 | July 16, 2021 12:45 | 13h 30m | 1,754 | 24K |
| 7 | April 22, 2021 15:00 | April 22, 2021 15:45 | 45m | 1,749 | 875 |
| 8 | April 21, 2021 23:30 | April 22, 2021 01:15 | 1h 45m | 1,748 | 3,059 |
| 9 | February 4, 2021 15:45 | February 4, 2021 23:00 | 7h 15m | 1,741 | 6,972 |
| 10 | February 5, 2021 00:15 | February 5, 2021 20:15 | 20h | 1,741 | 34K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 78 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Deaf Smith 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 Public Service Co | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 3.00 | 4.2 hrs | 2.10 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,107 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. Deaf Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deaf Smith 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/deaf-smith-county