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2023 Wichita County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wichita County, TX went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 322K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 194th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1770th 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 Wichita 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 | August 11, 2023 02:15 | August 14, 2023 01:15 | 2d 23h | 10,610 | 217K |
| 2 | May 23, 2023 03:15 | May 23, 2023 08:00 | 4h 45m | 2,178 | 671 |
| 3 | April 10, 2023 13:45 | April 11, 2023 02:45 | 13h | 2,065 | 2,423 |
| 4 | February 27, 2023 02:15 | February 27, 2023 19:00 | 16h 45m | 1,718 | 2,140 |
| 5 | May 3, 2023 13:30 | May 3, 2023 23:00 | 9h 30m | 1,626 | 1,667 |
| 6 | February 14, 2023 14:45 | February 15, 2023 06:45 | 16h | 1,581 | 2,955 |
| 7 | May 7, 2023 00:00 | May 9, 2023 03:45 | 2d 3h | 1,443 | 7,961 |
| 8 | July 29, 2023 22:15 | July 30, 2023 08:45 | 10h 30m | 1,392 | 2,861 |
| 9 | August 3, 2023 21:00 | August 4, 2023 10:45 | 13h 45m | 1,369 | 1,921 |
| 10 | January 12, 2023 01:00 | January 12, 2023 12:30 | 11h 30m | 1,182 | 1,263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 89 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Wichita 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 |
| AEP Texas North Company | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.17 |
| Southwest Rural Elec Assn Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Electra - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 90,763 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. Wichita County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wichita 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/wichita-county