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2015 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 203rd worst of 238 Texas counties and 1842nd 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 Cameron 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 | July 3, 2015 17:00 | July 4, 2015 12:15 | 19h 15m | 19,642 | 34K |
| 2 | July 15, 2015 02:45 | July 15, 2015 07:15 | 4h 30m | 6,314 | 14K |
| 3 | April 24, 2015 21:45 | April 27, 2015 05:15 | 2d 7h | 5,745 | 37K |
| 4 | January 17, 2015 18:45 | January 26, 2015 17:30 | 8d 22h | 5,368 | 12K |
| 5 | May 4, 2015 08:45 | May 4, 2015 11:15 | 2h 30m | 5,313 | 5,362 |
| 6 | May 12, 2015 06:15 | May 13, 2015 20:30 | 1d 14h | 3,427 | 9,809 |
| 7 | May 21, 2015 17:45 | May 22, 2015 07:45 | 14h | 3,036 | 3,156 |
| 8 | April 15, 2015 04:45 | April 21, 2015 08:00 | 6d 3h | 2,354 | 6,430 |
| 9 | June 29, 2015 13:15 | June 29, 2015 23:00 | 9h 45m | 2,270 | 1,380 |
| 10 | January 9, 2015 15:45 | January 11, 2015 07:30 | 1d 15h | 2,165 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 96 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Cameron 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 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2015 | 11 min | 0.12 | - | - |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county