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2023 Potter County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Potter County, TX went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 218K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 161st worst of 252 Texas counties and 1364th 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 Potter 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 25, 2023 08:00 | June 25, 2023 14:30 | 6h 30m | 4,833 | 14K |
| 2 | June 27, 2023 07:30 | June 28, 2023 02:00 | 18h 30m | 4,802 | 8,872 |
| 3 | February 26, 2023 19:15 | March 1, 2023 02:45 | 2d 7h | 3,856 | 22K |
| 4 | September 7, 2023 21:30 | September 8, 2023 08:30 | 11h | 3,126 | 7,266 |
| 5 | September 28, 2023 14:00 | September 28, 2023 21:30 | 7h 30m | 3,124 | 4,166 |
| 6 | November 23, 2023 08:45 | November 23, 2023 15:15 | 6h 30m | 2,466 | 7,207 |
| 7 | October 8, 2023 02:30 | October 8, 2023 03:15 | 45m | 2,015 | 1,510 |
| 8 | April 24, 2023 19:00 | April 24, 2023 22:15 | 3h 15m | 1,922 | 488 |
| 9 | June 8, 2023 03:30 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 3d 8h | 1,764 | 59K |
| 10 | June 24, 2023 14:30 | June 25, 2023 02:30 | 12h | 1,712 | 4,940 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Potter 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 |
| Rita Blanca 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 ÷ 38,898 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. Potter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Potter 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/potter-county