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2023 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 773K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 224th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2211th 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 El Paso 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 | February 26, 2023 18:15 | February 28, 2023 11:00 | 1d 16h | 27,876 | 207K |
| 2 | August 6, 2023 17:30 | August 9, 2023 05:15 | 2d 11h | 8,175 | 67K |
| 3 | October 1, 2023 01:00 | October 1, 2023 13:15 | 12h 15m | 7,802 | 21K |
| 4 | June 6, 2023 23:45 | June 8, 2023 02:00 | 1d 2h | 7,455 | 10K |
| 5 | January 23, 2023 02:30 | January 23, 2023 02:45 | 15m | 7,047 | 1,762 |
| 6 | October 15, 2023 19:45 | October 16, 2023 00:45 | 5h | 6,305 | 11K |
| 7 | August 28, 2023 10:30 | August 30, 2023 03:15 | 1d 16h | 6,149 | 16K |
| 8 | March 2, 2023 14:15 | March 3, 2023 00:45 | 10h 30m | 5,137 | 2,090 |
| 9 | June 26, 2023 13:45 | June 28, 2023 12:30 | 1d 22h | 4,875 | 37K |
| 10 | August 23, 2023 08:30 | August 23, 2023 21:15 | 12h 45m | 4,780 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 207 reached 100+ customers, 69 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 13.1 hrs | - | 11.6 hrs | - |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 72 min | 0.94 |
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 ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county