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2023 Ward County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ward County, TX went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 214th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2007th 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 Ward 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 | December 24, 2023 09:45 | December 24, 2023 10:45 | 1h | 1,598 | 1,597 |
| 2 | February 26, 2023 20:30 | February 28, 2023 05:00 | 1d 8h | 559 | 4,478 |
| 3 | June 25, 2023 22:30 | June 26, 2023 02:30 | 4h | 527 | 792 |
| 4 | July 4, 2023 03:30 | July 4, 2023 14:00 | 10h 30m | 314 | 1,278 |
| 5 | May 12, 2023 11:00 | May 13, 2023 05:00 | 18h | 291 | 536 |
| 6 | May 19, 2023 23:45 | May 20, 2023 00:45 | 1h | 278 | 278 |
| 7 | June 30, 2023 20:45 | July 1, 2023 10:30 | 13h 45m | 208 | 569 |
| 8 | September 21, 2023 07:45 | September 21, 2023 18:15 | 10h 30m | 194 | 246 |
| 9 | October 25, 2023 05:15 | October 26, 2023 01:45 | 20h 30m | 182 | 1,721 |
| 10 | March 2, 2023 17:00 | March 3, 2023 12:45 | 19h 45m | 156 | 696 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 14 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ward 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 |
| 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 ÷ 8,555 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. Ward County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ward 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/ward-county