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2015 Brooks County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Brooks County, TX went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 238 Texas counties and 204th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brooks County, 2015
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 13, 2015 03:45 | April 15, 2015 22:30 | 2d 18h | 2,129 | 11K |
| 2 | May 8, 2015 10:15 | May 8, 2015 18:30 | 8h 15m | 1,738 | 1,860 |
| 3 | May 11, 2015 23:15 | May 16, 2015 23:30 | 5d | 867 | 20K |
| 4 | January 17, 2015 16:30 | January 17, 2015 18:45 | 2h 15m | 187 | 381 |
| 5 | April 10, 2015 20:15 | April 10, 2015 22:45 | 2h 30m | 177 | 186 |
| 6 | April 8, 2015 16:30 | April 8, 2015 17:00 | 30m | 96 | 48 |
| 7 | July 2, 2015 18:30 | July 3, 2015 01:30 | 7h | 92 | 183 |
| 8 | April 24, 2015 07:15 | April 25, 2015 02:15 | 19h | 87 | 485 |
| 9 | June 18, 2015 05:00 | June 18, 2015 12:00 | 7h | 81 | 336 |
| 10 | August 17, 2015 21:00 | August 17, 2015 21:30 | 30m | 79 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 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 Brooks County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2015 | 4.3 hrs | 2.02 | 2.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.0 hrs | 2.75 | 6.0 hrs | 2.75 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 7.7 hrs | 2.66 | 3.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,092 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. Brooks County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brooks County, TX annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/texas/brooks-county