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2022 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 132K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 589th 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 Polk 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 | October 25, 2022 05:30 | October 25, 2022 23:00 | 17h 30m | 2,888 | 7,161 |
| 2 | July 14, 2022 22:30 | July 15, 2022 04:30 | 6h | 2,676 | 3,751 |
| 3 | February 28, 2022 16:45 | February 28, 2022 23:30 | 6h 45m | 2,635 | 3,240 |
| 4 | February 24, 2022 12:45 | February 24, 2022 22:00 | 9h 15m | 2,372 | 824 |
| 5 | December 15, 2022 11:15 | December 15, 2022 15:15 | 4h | 1,973 | 1,584 |
| 6 | March 15, 2022 03:00 | March 15, 2022 09:00 | 6h | 1,812 | 3,209 |
| 7 | December 10, 2022 22:45 | December 11, 2022 16:45 | 18h | 1,607 | 13K |
| 8 | October 11, 2022 13:15 | October 11, 2022 20:30 | 7h 15m | 1,561 | 2,764 |
| 9 | August 20, 2022 03:45 | August 22, 2022 18:00 | 2d 14h | 1,531 | 2,061 |
| 10 | March 21, 2022 18:30 | March 22, 2022 02:15 | 7h 45m | 1,350 | 1,098 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 96 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2022 | 6.5 hrs | 2.49 | 6.0 hrs | 2.39 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 5.0 hrs | - | 4.2 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,122 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county