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2021 Hutchinson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hutchinson County, TX went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 187th worst of 252 Texas counties and 750th 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 Hutchinson 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 | March 17, 2021 09:30 | March 20, 2021 23:45 | 3d 14h | 4,204 | 43K |
| 2 | February 16, 2021 13:30 | February 16, 2021 21:30 | 8h | 1,760 | 3,128 |
| 3 | July 7, 2021 20:00 | July 7, 2021 22:30 | 2h 30m | 1,267 | 1,954 |
| 4 | May 18, 2021 02:00 | May 18, 2021 07:30 | 5h 30m | 1,212 | 2,489 |
| 5 | February 28, 2021 15:30 | February 28, 2021 17:00 | 1h 30m | 1,150 | 1,658 |
| 6 | May 15, 2021 00:00 | May 15, 2021 14:00 | 14h | 1,048 | 4,069 |
| 7 | September 1, 2021 17:30 | September 1, 2021 23:15 | 5h 45m | 880 | 1,152 |
| 8 | January 19, 2021 15:45 | January 19, 2021 20:00 | 4h 15m | 592 | 379 |
| 9 | June 9, 2021 21:30 | June 10, 2021 06:45 | 9h 15m | 565 | 1,096 |
| 10 | August 21, 2021 20:15 | August 22, 2021 08:30 | 12h 15m | 377 | 2,179 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 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 Hutchinson 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 |
| Rita Blanca Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 6,978 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. Hutchinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hutchinson 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/hutchinson-county