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2023 Childress County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Childress County, TX went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 6,267 customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 217th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2098th 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 Childress 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 | May 17, 2023 22:30 | May 17, 2023 22:45 | 15m | 844 | 211 |
| 2 | May 17, 2023 12:30 | May 17, 2023 16:45 | 4h 15m | 586 | 174 |
| 3 | January 11, 2023 15:15 | January 11, 2023 18:00 | 2h 45m | 532 | 600 |
| 4 | July 14, 2023 05:30 | July 14, 2023 09:00 | 3h 30m | 155 | 194 |
| 5 | August 12, 2023 00:45 | August 12, 2023 02:15 | 1h 30m | 152 | 173 |
| 6 | February 27, 2023 01:15 | February 27, 2023 14:45 | 13h 30m | 141 | 694 |
| 7 | July 18, 2023 02:45 | July 18, 2023 08:45 | 6h | 113 | 459 |
| 8 | August 3, 2023 15:45 | August 3, 2023 17:30 | 1h 45m | 113 | 198 |
| 9 | December 13, 2023 19:00 | December 13, 2023 22:45 | 3h 45m | 112 | 40 |
| 10 | December 4, 2023 14:30 | December 4, 2023 16:45 | 2h 15m | 87 | 92 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Childress 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2023 | 6.8 hrs | 2.02 | 2.8 hrs | 1.53 |
| AEP Texas North Company | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.17 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2023 | 42.7 hrs | 3.15 | 5.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harmon Electric Assn 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 n/a of Texas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,451 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. Childress County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Childress 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/childress-county