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2021 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 696K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 244th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2225th 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 El Paso 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 | November 13, 2021 13:15 | November 14, 2021 01:30 | 12h 15m | 38,358 | 50K |
| 2 | July 11, 2021 20:30 | July 13, 2021 20:00 | 1d 23h | 13,940 | 72K |
| 3 | January 20, 2021 08:15 | January 20, 2021 20:30 | 12h 15m | 13,014 | 82K |
| 4 | August 23, 2021 17:15 | August 24, 2021 03:45 | 10h 30m | 8,302 | 16K |
| 5 | May 15, 2021 23:00 | May 16, 2021 02:45 | 3h 45m | 7,357 | 15K |
| 6 | January 29, 2021 19:30 | January 30, 2021 02:45 | 7h 15m | 7,337 | 11K |
| 7 | August 14, 2021 12:30 | August 14, 2021 17:00 | 4h 30m | 6,794 | 14K |
| 8 | September 14, 2021 16:00 | September 14, 2021 19:00 | 3h | 6,404 | 4,511 |
| 9 | June 10, 2021 03:30 | June 10, 2021 06:30 | 3h | 6,136 | 12K |
| 10 | February 23, 2021 23:45 | February 24, 2021 00:45 | 1h | 5,747 | 1,438 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 251 reached 100+ customers, 90 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.3 hrs | - | 5.3 hrs | - |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.21 | 2.5 hrs | 1.11 |
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 ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county