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2023 Dawson County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dawson County, TX went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 175th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1501st 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 Dawson 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 4, 2023 17:30 | April 4, 2023 21:30 | 4h | 3,253 | 1,144 |
| 2 | October 21, 2023 13:45 | October 21, 2023 21:45 | 8h | 1,490 | 2,970 |
| 3 | May 12, 2023 08:15 | May 13, 2023 23:45 | 1d 15h | 1,114 | 3,385 |
| 4 | October 23, 2023 20:00 | October 24, 2023 01:00 | 5h | 1,022 | 4,245 |
| 5 | June 2, 2023 21:00 | June 3, 2023 21:30 | 1d | 917 | 1,351 |
| 6 | October 4, 2023 12:00 | October 6, 2023 20:15 | 2d 8h | 890 | 1,625 |
| 7 | October 3, 2023 07:15 | October 4, 2023 06:45 | 23h 30m | 800 | 3,240 |
| 8 | December 20, 2023 15:15 | December 20, 2023 15:45 | 30m | 725 | 252 |
| 9 | October 19, 2023 20:00 | October 20, 2023 00:30 | 4h 30m | 645 | 347 |
| 10 | November 22, 2023 14:45 | November 22, 2023 18:15 | 3h 30m | 483 | 1,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 41 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Dawson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | 1.27 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | - | 4.3 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 8,173 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. Dawson County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dawson 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/dawson-county