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2024 Castro County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Castro County, TX went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 146th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1375th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Castro County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 22, 2024 14:45 | March 22, 2024 19:00 | 4h 15m | 3,282 | 2,475 |
| 2 | November 12, 2024 15:15 | November 12, 2024 17:30 | 2h 15m | 1,087 | 1,056 |
| 3 | May 11, 2024 14:45 | May 13, 2024 20:30 | 2d 5h | 647 | 916 |
| 4 | June 7, 2024 01:00 | June 7, 2024 06:45 | 5h 45m | 587 | 2,195 |
| 5 | February 8, 2024 14:15 | February 8, 2024 15:15 | 1h | 460 | 339 |
| 6 | May 28, 2024 22:00 | May 29, 2024 08:15 | 10h 15m | 400 | 1,463 |
| 7 | September 21, 2024 20:00 | September 23, 2024 14:00 | 1d 18h | 395 | 3,013 |
| 8 | May 30, 2024 05:30 | May 30, 2024 05:45 | 15m | 380 | 95 |
| 9 | June 4, 2024 15:45 | June 4, 2024 22:00 | 6h 15m | 366 | 372 |
| 10 | June 13, 2024 14:15 | June 13, 2024 15:30 | 1h 15m | 341 | 224 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 44 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Castro County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.21 | 2.1 hrs | 1.14 |
| Deaf Smith Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.8 hrs | 1.94 | 3.7 hrs | 1.76 |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swisher Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,080 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. Castro County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Castro County, TX annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/texas/castro-county