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2024 El Paso County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in El Paso County, TX went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 584K customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 231st worst of 252 Texas counties and 2508th 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 El Paso 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 24, 2024 11:00 | March 25, 2024 00:45 | 13h 45m | 9,373 | 28K |
| 2 | July 5, 2024 22:15 | July 6, 2024 21:45 | 23h 30m | 6,985 | 11K |
| 3 | June 23, 2024 12:30 | June 23, 2024 14:45 | 2h 15m | 6,704 | 5,412 |
| 4 | January 8, 2024 16:30 | January 9, 2024 08:15 | 15h 45m | 6,010 | 21K |
| 5 | August 21, 2024 11:30 | August 21, 2024 21:30 | 10h | 5,686 | 3,584 |
| 6 | August 21, 2024 22:30 | August 22, 2024 06:00 | 7h 30m | 5,672 | 3,732 |
| 7 | January 11, 2024 16:15 | January 12, 2024 08:45 | 16h 30m | 5,327 | 21K |
| 8 | January 28, 2024 18:15 | January 28, 2024 23:30 | 5h 15m | 5,241 | 4,749 |
| 9 | July 25, 2024 19:45 | July 26, 2024 04:15 | 8h 30m | 5,164 | 10K |
| 10 | July 23, 2024 11:00 | July 23, 2024 12:30 | 1h 30m | 4,766 | 6,015 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 246 reached 100+ customers, 65 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 El Paso 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | - | 3.9 hrs | - |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2024 | 78 min | 0.83 | 78 min | 0.83 |
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 ÷ 349,484 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. El Paso County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), El Paso 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/el-paso-county