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2023 Deaf Smith County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Deaf Smith County, TX went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 125th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1032nd 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 Deaf Smith 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 1, 2023 01:00 | April 1, 2023 03:00 | 2h | 4,337 | 8,672 |
| 2 | August 15, 2023 07:00 | August 15, 2023 21:45 | 14h 45m | 2,136 | 2,309 |
| 3 | September 3, 2023 01:00 | September 5, 2023 13:30 | 2d 12h | 1,625 | 1,879 |
| 4 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | January 3, 2023 14:45 | 2d 14h | 1,562 | 4,354 |
| 5 | May 27, 2023 02:45 | June 7, 2023 22:15 | 11d 19h | 736 | 22K |
| 6 | February 26, 2023 20:00 | February 28, 2023 11:30 | 1d 15h | 680 | 4,635 |
| 7 | October 11, 2023 14:45 | October 11, 2023 21:00 | 6h 15m | 673 | 178 |
| 8 | May 11, 2023 05:00 | May 11, 2023 10:45 | 5h 45m | 602 | 1,424 |
| 9 | July 17, 2023 15:45 | July 18, 2023 00:15 | 8h 30m | 553 | 770 |
| 10 | July 20, 2023 22:45 | July 22, 2023 02:15 | 1d 3h | 527 | 1,363 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 96 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 Deaf Smith 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,107 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. Deaf Smith County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Deaf Smith 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/deaf-smith-county