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2023 Castro County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Castro County, TX went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 109th worst of 252 Texas counties and 856th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Castro County, 2023
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 2, 2023 15:15 | April 2, 2023 18:45 | 3h 30m | 4,136 | 9,788 |
| 2 | February 26, 2023 21:30 | February 28, 2023 03:00 | 1d 5h | 2,235 | 7,732 |
| 3 | September 27, 2023 18:30 | September 27, 2023 20:30 | 2h | 907 | 455 |
| 4 | February 14, 2023 07:00 | February 14, 2023 22:30 | 15h 30m | 781 | 1,755 |
| 5 | July 6, 2023 05:45 | July 6, 2023 16:15 | 10h 30m | 617 | 1,384 |
| 6 | March 6, 2023 14:45 | March 6, 2023 19:00 | 4h 15m | 468 | 1,792 |
| 7 | April 3, 2023 15:00 | April 3, 2023 15:30 | 30m | 468 | 117 |
| 8 | March 14, 2023 09:00 | March 21, 2023 20:00 | 7d 11h | 455 | 1,188 |
| 9 | January 12, 2023 16:15 | January 12, 2023 22:15 | 6h | 453 | 578 |
| 10 | May 27, 2023 03:30 | May 27, 2023 20:00 | 16h 30m | 414 | 2,221 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 67 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | 1.27 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 2.40 | 5.4 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 n/a of Texas's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/texas/castro-county