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2024 Rusk County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rusk County, TX went without power for an average of 47.3 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 252 Texas counties and 217th 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 Rusk 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 | May 28, 2024 11:45 | June 14, 2024 17:15 | 17d 5h | 12,840 | 690K |
| 2 | April 8, 2024 14:45 | April 17, 2024 02:00 | 8d 11h | 12,202 | 262K |
| 3 | July 4, 2024 02:15 | July 11, 2024 20:00 | 7d 17h | 5,819 | 94K |
| 4 | April 28, 2024 02:30 | May 1, 2024 12:15 | 3d 9h | 3,400 | 42K |
| 5 | March 19, 2024 12:45 | March 21, 2024 04:15 | 1d 15h | 3,319 | 5,825 |
| 6 | June 26, 2024 14:15 | June 28, 2024 20:30 | 2d 6h | 2,505 | 15K |
| 7 | September 12, 2024 12:45 | September 12, 2024 23:15 | 10h 30m | 1,773 | 6,312 |
| 8 | December 28, 2024 12:00 | December 29, 2024 23:00 | 1d 11h | 1,665 | 4,817 |
| 9 | February 11, 2024 11:45 | February 12, 2024 07:30 | 19h 45m | 1,505 | 5,467 |
| 10 | October 22, 2024 08:30 | October 23, 2024 00:30 | 16h | 1,492 | 1,895 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 107 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Rusk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2024 | 16.8 hrs | 2.89 | 4.5 hrs | 1.94 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | 2024 | 23.0 hrs | 7.24 | 20.8 hrs | 6.86 |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 54.9 hrs | - | 19.9 hrs | - |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 64.3 hrs | - | 7.2 hrs | - |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (TX) | 2024 | 45.1 hrs | 8.31 | 10.5 hrs | 4.68 |
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 ÷ 26,571 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county