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2022 Castro County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Castro County, TX went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 102nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 874th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Castro County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 24, 2022 00:30 | May 26, 2022 23:15 | 2d 22h | 1,166 | 6,513 |
| 2 | March 3, 2022 17:00 | March 3, 2022 21:00 | 4h | 950 | 1,153 |
| 3 | July 13, 2022 01:15 | July 13, 2022 17:45 | 16h 30m | 578 | 1,366 |
| 4 | January 6, 2022 01:45 | January 6, 2022 08:45 | 7h | 475 | 126 |
| 5 | June 24, 2022 15:45 | June 24, 2022 22:15 | 6h 30m | 455 | 462 |
| 6 | December 7, 2022 07:15 | December 7, 2022 11:00 | 3h 45m | 433 | 1,372 |
| 7 | July 30, 2022 02:45 | July 30, 2022 06:00 | 3h 15m | 393 | 311 |
| 8 | May 10, 2022 22:00 | May 11, 2022 17:00 | 19h | 357 | 1,665 |
| 9 | May 10, 2022 18:30 | May 10, 2022 21:15 | 2h 45m | 351 | 353 |
| 10 | August 4, 2022 15:00 | August 5, 2022 20:15 | 1d 5h | 309 | 759 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 72 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Castro County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.02 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 5.6 hrs | 2.30 | 5.6 hrs | 2.30 |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 93% of Texas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,080 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. Castro County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Castro County, TX annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/texas/castro-county