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2023 Hale County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hale County, TX went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 221st worst of 252 Texas counties and 2179th 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 Hale 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 04:00 | September 11, 2023 07:15 | 3h 15m | 2,802 | 4,142 |
| 2 | June 20, 2023 14:15 | June 20, 2023 22:30 | 8h 15m | 2,370 | 662 |
| 3 | May 19, 2023 10:30 | May 19, 2023 21:15 | 10h 45m | 2,320 | 2,182 |
| 4 | July 6, 2023 06:45 | July 7, 2023 00:30 | 17h 45m | 1,667 | 2,257 |
| 5 | July 23, 2023 08:45 | July 23, 2023 14:15 | 5h 30m | 1,546 | 3,871 |
| 6 | July 23, 2023 16:00 | July 23, 2023 21:00 | 5h | 1,546 | 593 |
| 7 | February 26, 2023 22:15 | March 1, 2023 02:00 | 2d 3h | 989 | 7,650 |
| 8 | May 13, 2023 16:30 | May 13, 2023 19:45 | 3h 15m | 966 | 760 |
| 9 | May 27, 2023 09:15 | May 28, 2023 02:45 | 17h 30m | 791 | 2,663 |
| 10 | September 14, 2023 08:45 | September 14, 2023 12:30 | 3h 45m | 709 | 1,419 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Hale 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 |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher 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 ÷ 15,402 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. Hale County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hale 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/hale-county