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2023 Wheeler County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wheeler County, TX went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 5,689 customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 218th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2133rd 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 Wheeler 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 | April 24, 2023 19:45 | April 24, 2023 21:00 | 1h 15m | 444 | 334 |
| 2 | June 2, 2023 20:30 | June 3, 2023 03:00 | 6h 30m | 308 | 462 |
| 3 | June 18, 2023 13:30 | June 18, 2023 14:30 | 1h | 261 | 106 |
| 4 | July 16, 2023 10:45 | July 16, 2023 22:30 | 11h 45m | 240 | 633 |
| 5 | October 1, 2023 15:00 | October 1, 2023 15:30 | 30m | 223 | 112 |
| 6 | August 3, 2023 13:45 | August 3, 2023 20:30 | 6h 45m | 219 | 879 |
| 7 | September 27, 2023 13:45 | September 27, 2023 14:30 | 45m | 211 | 111 |
| 8 | February 14, 2023 19:15 | February 14, 2023 23:15 | 4h | 110 | 207 |
| 9 | February 27, 2023 00:45 | February 28, 2023 02:00 | 1d 1h | 71 | 522 |
| 10 | June 10, 2023 08:00 | June 10, 2023 17:00 | 9h | 64 | 160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wheeler 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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2023 | 42.7 hrs | 3.15 | 5.0 hrs | 2.03 |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Plains 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 ÷ 2,320 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. Wheeler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wheeler 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/wheeler-county