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2021 Ward County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ward County, TX went without power for an average of 15.1 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 168th worst of 252 Texas counties and 564th 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 Ward 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 | June 26, 2021 21:45 | June 30, 2021 01:45 | 3d 4h | 3,649 | 47K |
| 2 | October 6, 2021 13:45 | October 6, 2021 18:15 | 4h 30m | 1,767 | 1,767 |
| 3 | January 1, 2021 10:15 | January 2, 2021 01:45 | 15h 30m | 1,620 | 831 |
| 4 | February 15, 2021 00:15 | February 18, 2021 16:30 | 3d 16h | 1,572 | 62K |
| 5 | August 31, 2021 23:45 | September 1, 2021 00:45 | 1h | 1,310 | 328 |
| 6 | August 23, 2021 21:15 | August 24, 2021 10:30 | 13h 15m | 1,296 | 999 |
| 7 | January 22, 2021 02:00 | January 22, 2021 03:45 | 1h 45m | 1,275 | 1,220 |
| 8 | February 11, 2021 03:45 | February 11, 2021 05:30 | 1h 45m | 1,263 | 497 |
| 9 | July 27, 2021 22:45 | July 28, 2021 09:45 | 11h | 586 | 162 |
| 10 | July 14, 2021 12:45 | July 14, 2021 13:45 | 1h | 513 | 175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 23 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Ward 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 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,555 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. Ward County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county