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2023 Garza County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Garza County, TX went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 9,214 customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 198th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1826th 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 Garza 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 | September 11, 2023 05:30 | September 11, 2023 23:30 | 18h | 1,107 | 4,186 |
| 2 | April 15, 2023 15:00 | April 15, 2023 16:15 | 1h 15m | 822 | 412 |
| 3 | December 7, 2023 16:15 | December 7, 2023 16:30 | 15m | 817 | 204 |
| 4 | December 19, 2023 15:30 | December 19, 2023 15:45 | 15m | 817 | 204 |
| 5 | October 11, 2023 18:30 | October 11, 2023 18:45 | 15m | 265 | 66 |
| 6 | August 19, 2023 16:00 | August 19, 2023 19:30 | 3h 30m | 255 | 67 |
| 7 | February 8, 2023 16:15 | February 8, 2023 19:00 | 2h 45m | 223 | 613 |
| 8 | February 9, 2023 19:00 | February 9, 2023 19:15 | 15m | 166 | 42 |
| 9 | July 24, 2023 01:15 | July 24, 2023 02:30 | 1h 15m | 154 | 193 |
| 10 | August 10, 2023 05:15 | August 10, 2023 06:00 | 45m | 153 | 115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Garza 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 |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.3 hrs | - | 4.3 hrs | - |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Big Country Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 2,693 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. Garza County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Garza 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/garza-county