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2023 Howard County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Howard County, TX went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 245th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2537th 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 Howard 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 | May 18, 2023 17:30 | May 19, 2023 20:15 | 1d 2h | 1,594 | 3,431 |
| 2 | May 29, 2023 04:15 | May 29, 2023 15:15 | 11h | 1,558 | 5,181 |
| 3 | November 23, 2023 11:45 | November 23, 2023 12:45 | 1h | 1,306 | 799 |
| 4 | June 8, 2023 01:30 | June 9, 2023 10:15 | 1d 8h | 992 | 6,473 |
| 5 | May 12, 2023 20:45 | May 14, 2023 07:45 | 1d 11h | 730 | 2,764 |
| 6 | September 16, 2023 10:00 | September 17, 2023 02:00 | 16h | 713 | 956 |
| 7 | February 14, 2023 14:15 | February 14, 2023 21:00 | 6h 45m | 707 | 406 |
| 8 | September 11, 2023 09:00 | September 14, 2023 02:15 | 2d 17h | 654 | 7,047 |
| 9 | May 23, 2023 21:45 | May 25, 2023 00:45 | 1d 3h | 651 | 1,559 |
| 10 | March 2, 2023 20:45 | March 3, 2023 19:00 | 22h 15m | 600 | 885 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Howard 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 |
| 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 ÷ 43,808 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. Howard County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county