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2021 Franklin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Franklin County, TX went without power for an average of 21.3 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 130th worst of 252 Texas counties and 405th 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 Franklin 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 | October 28, 2021 10:30 | October 30, 2021 02:15 | 1d 15h | 3,869 | 15K |
| 2 | March 17, 2021 12:00 | March 18, 2021 02:30 | 14h 30m | 3,630 | 5,703 |
| 3 | April 24, 2021 06:15 | April 24, 2021 13:45 | 7h 30m | 3,255 | 4,906 |
| 4 | February 15, 2021 03:45 | February 18, 2021 12:00 | 3d 8h | 2,804 | 59K |
| 5 | July 9, 2021 18:15 | July 9, 2021 18:30 | 15m | 1,939 | 485 |
| 6 | September 20, 2021 21:00 | September 21, 2021 04:30 | 7h 30m | 1,630 | 8,189 |
| 7 | April 25, 2021 12:45 | April 25, 2021 14:15 | 1h 30m | 1,557 | 1,917 |
| 8 | February 11, 2021 17:45 | February 11, 2021 20:30 | 2h 45m | 809 | 365 |
| 9 | July 6, 2021 05:00 | July 6, 2021 08:30 | 3h 30m | 754 | 1,507 |
| 10 | April 30, 2021 14:00 | April 30, 2021 16:30 | 2h 30m | 714 | 1,066 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 31 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Franklin 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | 2021 | 13.2 hrs | - | 52 min | 0.86 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.1 hrs | 2.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.93 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 5,481 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county