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2021 Howard County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Howard County, TX went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 433K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 193rd worst of 252 Texas counties and 789th 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 Howard 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 12, 2021 07:45 | February 19, 2021 11:15 | 7d 3h | 8,061 | 338K |
| 2 | April 27, 2021 17:15 | April 29, 2021 02:00 | 1d 8h | 1,518 | 8,298 |
| 3 | October 26, 2021 16:30 | October 26, 2021 20:30 | 4h | 931 | 713 |
| 4 | November 13, 2021 08:15 | November 13, 2021 12:00 | 3h 45m | 922 | 2,249 |
| 5 | February 1, 2021 16:15 | February 1, 2021 22:00 | 5h 45m | 857 | 3,589 |
| 6 | January 15, 2021 00:30 | January 15, 2021 01:45 | 1h 15m | 833 | 426 |
| 7 | February 19, 2021 13:15 | February 21, 2021 13:30 | 2d | 733 | 9,190 |
| 8 | May 28, 2021 23:15 | May 30, 2021 15:45 | 1d 16h | 696 | 12K |
| 9 | July 25, 2021 05:15 | July 25, 2021 06:15 | 1h | 576 | 496 |
| 10 | June 26, 2021 23:15 | June 30, 2021 06:15 | 3d 7h | 512 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 59 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Howard 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.5 hrs | - | 6.5 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 43,808 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. Howard County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county