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2021 Upshur County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Upshur County, TX went without power for an average of 17.4 hours, a total of 316K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 151st worst of 252 Texas counties and 489th 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 Upshur 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 | December 18, 2021 13:30 | December 19, 2021 01:15 | 11h 45m | 3,847 | 17K |
| 2 | February 15, 2021 23:15 | February 17, 2021 00:30 | 1d 1h | 3,681 | 31K |
| 3 | January 10, 2021 23:15 | January 13, 2021 17:30 | 2d 18h | 3,456 | 48K |
| 4 | May 11, 2021 01:15 | May 13, 2021 04:15 | 2d 3h | 3,193 | 24K |
| 5 | October 28, 2021 11:45 | October 30, 2021 22:45 | 2d 11h | 2,870 | 22K |
| 6 | September 1, 2021 12:15 | September 1, 2021 22:15 | 10h | 2,035 | 17K |
| 7 | February 15, 2021 06:45 | February 15, 2021 21:30 | 14h 45m | 1,813 | 12K |
| 8 | June 28, 2021 17:45 | June 29, 2021 11:00 | 17h 15m | 1,604 | 3,929 |
| 9 | February 10, 2021 21:00 | February 11, 2021 19:45 | 22h 45m | 1,603 | 3,467 |
| 10 | May 18, 2021 19:45 | May 19, 2021 22:00 | 1d 2h | 1,404 | 5,754 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 129 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Upshur 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 Electric Power Co | 2021 | 11.8 hrs | 2.41 | 5.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2021 | 19.7 hrs | 5.61 | 16.7 hrs | 5.43 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.1 hrs | 2.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.93 |
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 ÷ 18,224 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county