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2021 Garza County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Garza County, TX went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 8,492 customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 234th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1791st 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 Garza 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 14:00 | February 16, 2021 19:45 | 5h 45m | 1,133 | 2,551 |
| 2 | May 12, 2021 19:00 | May 12, 2021 19:15 | 15m | 248 | 62 |
| 3 | February 18, 2021 16:30 | February 19, 2021 21:00 | 1d 4h | 247 | 438 |
| 4 | May 25, 2021 06:30 | May 25, 2021 10:15 | 3h 45m | 219 | 113 |
| 5 | April 16, 2021 03:30 | April 16, 2021 07:00 | 3h 30m | 218 | 266 |
| 6 | February 11, 2021 08:00 | February 11, 2021 13:45 | 5h 45m | 210 | 851 |
| 7 | February 18, 2021 03:30 | February 18, 2021 07:15 | 3h 45m | 210 | 335 |
| 8 | February 12, 2021 10:45 | February 13, 2021 02:45 | 16h | 199 | 1,265 |
| 9 | July 12, 2021 00:00 | July 12, 2021 01:15 | 1h 15m | 166 | 208 |
| 10 | September 30, 2021 20:00 | September 30, 2021 21:15 | 1h 15m | 98 | 25 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Garza 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.5 hrs | - | 6.5 hrs | - |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Country 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 ÷ 2,693 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. Garza County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garza 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/garza-county