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2022 Potter County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Potter County, TX went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 175th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1712th 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 Potter 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 | March 21, 2022 20:00 | March 23, 2022 23:45 | 2d 3h | 5,308 | 65K |
| 2 | August 12, 2022 14:30 | August 13, 2022 02:45 | 12h 15m | 3,097 | 6,911 |
| 3 | July 30, 2022 02:00 | July 31, 2022 10:45 | 1d 8h | 2,956 | 14K |
| 4 | May 2, 2022 00:30 | May 2, 2022 10:00 | 9h 30m | 2,804 | 4,337 |
| 5 | June 8, 2022 11:15 | June 9, 2022 02:00 | 14h 45m | 1,729 | 4,111 |
| 6 | July 2, 2022 15:00 | July 3, 2022 08:45 | 17h 45m | 1,487 | 4,495 |
| 7 | January 29, 2022 13:15 | January 29, 2022 19:15 | 6h | 1,481 | 438 |
| 8 | July 19, 2022 13:45 | July 19, 2022 18:00 | 4h 15m | 1,480 | 697 |
| 9 | May 31, 2022 05:45 | May 31, 2022 23:45 | 18h | 1,220 | 2,338 |
| 10 | August 17, 2022 09:00 | August 17, 2022 12:45 | 3h 45m | 1,111 | 1,325 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 55 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Potter 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 |
| Rita Blanca Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 38,898 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county