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2021 Ector County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ector County, TX went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 202nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 867th 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 Ector 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 12, 2021 23:00 | February 21, 2021 00:45 | 8d 1h | 28,468 | 1.1M |
| 2 | August 19, 2021 15:00 | August 22, 2021 03:00 | 2d 12h | 8,364 | 34K |
| 3 | September 24, 2021 09:15 | September 24, 2021 18:45 | 9h 30m | 8,000 | 7,704 |
| 4 | May 31, 2021 14:15 | June 2, 2021 09:30 | 1d 19h | 4,369 | 14K |
| 5 | March 22, 2021 15:00 | March 23, 2021 15:30 | 1d | 3,450 | 5,153 |
| 6 | April 29, 2021 14:15 | May 1, 2021 06:45 | 1d 16h | 3,085 | 5,915 |
| 7 | August 1, 2021 07:15 | August 1, 2021 23:00 | 15h 45m | 2,353 | 14K |
| 8 | October 29, 2021 13:45 | October 31, 2021 01:00 | 1d 11h | 2,246 | 7,817 |
| 9 | June 25, 2021 22:15 | June 26, 2021 15:00 | 16h 45m | 1,968 | 3,681 |
| 10 | October 15, 2021 13:00 | October 16, 2021 10:45 | 21h 45m | 1,912 | 2,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 126 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Ector 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| City of Goldsmith - (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 94% of Texas's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 156,481 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. Ector County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ector 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/ector-county