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2015 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 123rd worst of 238 Texas counties and 890th 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 Jim Wells 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 16, 2015 08:00 | July 16, 2015 12:00 | 4h | 2,319 | 5,408 |
| 2 | June 3, 2015 19:00 | June 3, 2015 23:00 | 4h | 1,597 | 2,299 |
| 3 | May 30, 2015 21:30 | May 31, 2015 01:30 | 4h | 1,009 | 596 |
| 4 | May 12, 2015 00:00 | May 16, 2015 20:00 | 4d 20h | 841 | 19K |
| 5 | April 13, 2015 03:45 | April 16, 2015 01:45 | 2d 22h | 548 | 7,567 |
| 6 | February 5, 2015 08:00 | February 5, 2015 09:00 | 1h | 543 | 409 |
| 7 | April 18, 2015 01:45 | April 19, 2015 05:45 | 1d 4h | 517 | 4,254 |
| 8 | June 17, 2015 21:15 | June 18, 2015 23:30 | 1d 2h | 344 | 2,040 |
| 9 | July 2, 2015 03:15 | July 3, 2015 10:45 | 1d 7h | 229 | 1,841 |
| 10 | May 23, 2015 16:15 | May 24, 2015 04:00 | 11h 45m | 181 | 831 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 17 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 4.5 hrs | 2.04 | - | - |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 7.7 hrs | 2.66 | 3.3 hrs | 1.37 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county