County annual report · FIPS 48379
2023 Rains County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rains County, TX went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 252 Texas counties and 600th 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 Rains 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 25, 2023 01:15 | September 26, 2023 03:15 | 1d 2h | 5,723 | 26K |
| 2 | October 28, 2023 04:30 | October 28, 2023 06:15 | 1h 45m | 3,422 | 2,791 |
| 3 | May 15, 2023 23:00 | May 16, 2023 01:15 | 2h 15m | 2,887 | 4,530 |
| 4 | June 16, 2023 04:15 | June 18, 2023 06:30 | 2d 2h | 1,948 | 26K |
| 5 | December 7, 2023 18:30 | December 7, 2023 19:00 | 30m | 977 | 489 |
| 6 | October 5, 2023 03:00 | October 5, 2023 11:15 | 8h 15m | 737 | 885 |
| 7 | January 31, 2023 17:00 | February 3, 2023 06:30 | 2d 13h | 679 | 7,560 |
| 8 | June 23, 2023 13:45 | June 23, 2023 16:15 | 2h 30m | 657 | 166 |
| 9 | June 18, 2023 09:45 | June 18, 2023 13:00 | 3h 15m | 607 | 1,616 |
| 10 | October 6, 2023 19:30 | October 6, 2023 21:45 | 2h 15m | 497 | 141 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Rains 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 Electric Power Co | 2023 | 42.7 hrs | 3.15 | 5.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | 2023 | 5.2 hrs | 1.71 | 52 min | 0.69 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 26.7 hrs | 4.49 | 5.1 hrs | 2.72 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,322 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. Rains County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rains 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/rains-county