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2023 Polk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Polk County, TX went without power for an average of 22.7 hours, a total of 253K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 252 Texas counties and 338th 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 Polk 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 | June 10, 2023 17:30 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 18h 45m | 9,179 | 51K |
| 2 | April 27, 2023 03:45 | April 29, 2023 14:45 | 2d 11h | 6,686 | 68K |
| 3 | August 27, 2023 22:45 | August 28, 2023 18:15 | 19h 30m | 3,470 | 7,469 |
| 4 | November 17, 2023 13:15 | November 17, 2023 20:45 | 7h 30m | 1,928 | 1,020 |
| 5 | May 13, 2023 00:30 | May 15, 2023 20:30 | 2d 20h | 1,555 | 7,218 |
| 6 | January 2, 2023 20:45 | January 3, 2023 03:00 | 6h 15m | 1,479 | 5,149 |
| 7 | September 8, 2023 17:15 | September 9, 2023 00:45 | 7h 30m | 1,378 | 385 |
| 8 | August 14, 2023 07:15 | August 14, 2023 20:00 | 12h 45m | 1,333 | 1,030 |
| 9 | April 6, 2023 20:45 | April 7, 2023 05:15 | 8h 30m | 1,319 | 4,411 |
| 10 | December 8, 2023 21:15 | December 8, 2023 23:15 | 2h | 1,286 | 1,608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 89 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2023 | 9.1 hrs | 2.38 | 5.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 8.9 hrs | - | 5.5 hrs | - |
| City of Livingston - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,122 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county