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2022 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 444K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 240th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2601st 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 El Paso 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 | January 1, 2022 17:00 | January 2, 2022 10:30 | 17h 30m | 7,137 | 6,791 |
| 2 | September 9, 2022 04:15 | September 9, 2022 08:15 | 4h | 5,778 | 14K |
| 3 | June 21, 2022 01:45 | June 22, 2022 04:15 | 1d 2h | 5,428 | 43K |
| 4 | April 7, 2022 16:30 | April 7, 2022 19:00 | 2h 30m | 5,345 | 5,345 |
| 5 | March 29, 2022 19:15 | March 30, 2022 07:15 | 12h | 5,237 | 8,391 |
| 6 | October 4, 2022 21:15 | October 5, 2022 11:30 | 14h 15m | 5,020 | 14K |
| 7 | May 21, 2022 20:00 | May 22, 2022 02:00 | 6h | 4,668 | 1,717 |
| 8 | July 25, 2022 16:15 | July 27, 2022 00:15 | 1d 8h | 4,385 | 7,499 |
| 9 | July 19, 2022 17:00 | July 20, 2022 10:15 | 17h 15m | 4,070 | 9,591 |
| 10 | August 11, 2022 23:00 | August 12, 2022 01:30 | 2h 30m | 3,988 | 5,878 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 201 reached 100+ customers, 75 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | - | 5.8 hrs | - |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2022 | 83 min | 0.94 | 83 min | 0.94 |
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 ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county