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2023 Upshur County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Upshur County, TX went without power for an average of 98.0 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 252 Texas counties and 28th 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 Upshur 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 16, 2023 05:15 | June 25, 2023 23:15 | 9d 18h | 23,857 | 1.6M |
| 2 | March 16, 2023 18:45 | March 17, 2023 11:45 | 17h | 3,854 | 5,341 |
| 3 | September 20, 2023 13:00 | September 20, 2023 18:00 | 5h | 3,183 | 1,644 |
| 4 | July 16, 2023 13:30 | July 18, 2023 02:30 | 1d 13h | 2,635 | 13K |
| 5 | December 19, 2023 12:45 | December 19, 2023 17:00 | 4h 15m | 2,193 | 2,702 |
| 6 | July 3, 2023 17:45 | July 4, 2023 07:00 | 13h 15m | 2,049 | 7,293 |
| 7 | June 10, 2023 16:00 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 20h 15m | 1,856 | 6,479 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 13:15 | April 6, 2023 00:45 | 11h 30m | 1,850 | 10K |
| 9 | September 6, 2023 16:15 | September 6, 2023 21:00 | 4h 45m | 1,723 | 1,249 |
| 10 | April 2, 2023 22:45 | April 5, 2023 05:00 | 2d 6h | 1,279 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 106 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Upshur 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 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2023 | 94.4 hrs | 6.13 | 14.7 hrs | 4.26 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 26.7 hrs | 4.49 | 5.1 hrs | 2.72 |
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 ÷ 18,224 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county