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2021 Gaines County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Gaines County, TX went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 242nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 2084th 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 Gaines 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 14, 2021 07:15 | February 16, 2021 23:15 | 2d 16h | 1,925 | 10K |
| 2 | April 30, 2021 08:30 | April 30, 2021 21:15 | 12h 45m | 1,416 | 1,546 |
| 3 | August 21, 2021 23:45 | August 22, 2021 18:15 | 18h 30m | 1,072 | 2,738 |
| 4 | June 25, 2021 21:30 | June 26, 2021 02:00 | 4h 30m | 765 | 921 |
| 5 | March 22, 2021 21:15 | March 23, 2021 05:45 | 8h 30m | 626 | 1,857 |
| 6 | May 16, 2021 00:45 | May 16, 2021 11:45 | 11h | 586 | 1,457 |
| 7 | February 12, 2021 10:30 | February 12, 2021 13:15 | 2h 45m | 489 | 690 |
| 8 | April 15, 2021 14:30 | April 15, 2021 16:00 | 1h 30m | 428 | 427 |
| 9 | December 10, 2021 18:45 | December 10, 2021 22:00 | 3h 15m | 373 | 290 |
| 10 | July 3, 2021 20:30 | July 7, 2021 03:30 | 3d 7h | 319 | 570 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 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 Gaines 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.5 hrs | - | 6.5 hrs | - |
| Lea County 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 ÷ 13,871 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. Gaines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaines 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/gaines-county