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2021 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 236th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1907th 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 Hale 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 13:15 | February 16, 2021 19:30 | 6h 15m | 6,666 | 17K |
| 2 | May 27, 2021 03:30 | May 27, 2021 22:15 | 18h 45m | 2,249 | 7,617 |
| 3 | May 15, 2021 02:30 | May 15, 2021 05:30 | 3h | 1,978 | 1,719 |
| 4 | July 16, 2021 02:45 | July 17, 2021 05:00 | 1d 2h | 1,930 | 5,027 |
| 5 | March 17, 2021 16:30 | March 18, 2021 01:00 | 8h 30m | 1,389 | 514 |
| 6 | June 27, 2021 02:45 | June 27, 2021 08:45 | 6h | 1,328 | 2,438 |
| 7 | February 15, 2021 19:00 | February 15, 2021 22:15 | 3h 15m | 826 | 518 |
| 8 | September 28, 2021 02:00 | September 28, 2021 05:00 | 3h | 824 | 1,059 |
| 9 | July 2, 2021 16:00 | July 2, 2021 17:15 | 1h 15m | 613 | 159 |
| 10 | June 21, 2021 13:30 | June 21, 2021 20:45 | 7h 15m | 586 | 775 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 20 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Hale 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 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county