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2022 Smith County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Smith County, TX went without power for an average of 11.6 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 252 Texas counties and 608th 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 Smith 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 | April 10, 2022 12:45 | April 17, 2022 05:00 | 6d 16h | 33,192 | 514K |
| 2 | April 5, 2022 06:30 | April 10, 2022 04:45 | 4d 22h | 21,410 | 220K |
| 3 | November 30, 2022 13:00 | December 1, 2022 06:15 | 17h 15m | 21,303 | 6,664 |
| 4 | July 13, 2022 13:15 | July 16, 2022 05:15 | 2d 16h | 11,316 | 79K |
| 5 | August 9, 2022 14:15 | August 11, 2022 08:45 | 1d 18h | 5,883 | 22K |
| 6 | May 22, 2022 01:15 | May 23, 2022 07:45 | 1d 6h | 5,855 | 38K |
| 7 | May 16, 2022 04:15 | May 17, 2022 03:45 | 23h 30m | 5,726 | 34K |
| 8 | May 26, 2022 13:00 | May 27, 2022 10:15 | 21h 15m | 5,472 | 2,612 |
| 9 | June 5, 2022 11:45 | June 5, 2022 20:30 | 8h 45m | 5,453 | 12K |
| 10 | December 22, 2022 15:45 | December 24, 2022 12:15 | 1d 20h | 5,274 | 71K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 184 reached 100+ customers, 52 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Smith 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2022 | 8.9 hrs | 2.53 | 5.8 hrs | 2.20 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2022 | 15.1 hrs | 4.56 | 11.7 hrs | 4.43 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 7.7 hrs | 2.13 | 5.8 hrs | 1.53 |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (TX) | 2022 | 19.1 hrs | 5.42 | 10.3 hrs | 3.92 |
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 ÷ 129,054 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. Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Smith 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/smith-county