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2023 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 31.6 hours, a total of 840K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 252 Texas counties and 216th 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 Rusk 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 23, 2023 00:15 | June 28, 2023 03:45 | 5d 3h | 12,571 | 303K |
| 2 | April 26, 2023 08:00 | April 28, 2023 09:00 | 2d 1h | 9,293 | 44K |
| 3 | June 16, 2023 05:30 | June 22, 2023 21:45 | 6d 16h | 6,024 | 231K |
| 4 | June 8, 2023 15:00 | June 8, 2023 22:45 | 7h 45m | 4,885 | 7,556 |
| 5 | June 3, 2023 17:45 | June 4, 2023 20:00 | 1d 2h | 3,715 | 18K |
| 6 | December 24, 2023 09:45 | December 24, 2023 14:45 | 5h | 3,369 | 11K |
| 7 | May 5, 2023 05:45 | May 7, 2023 00:15 | 1d 18h | 3,294 | 22K |
| 8 | January 18, 2023 19:30 | January 19, 2023 01:00 | 5h 30m | 3,282 | 6,569 |
| 9 | September 25, 2023 04:00 | September 26, 2023 20:45 | 1d 16h | 3,140 | 27K |
| 10 | October 26, 2023 14:00 | October 26, 2023 21:00 | 7h | 2,558 | 1,227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 128 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Rusk 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2023 | 42.7 hrs | 3.15 | 5.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 94.4 hrs | 6.13 | 14.7 hrs | 4.26 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 13.3 hrs | - | 13.3 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 20.0 hrs | - | 8.5 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (TX) | 2023 | 24.2 hrs | 6.92 | 11.1 hrs | 5.10 |
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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county