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2015 Starr County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Starr County, TX went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 127th worst of 238 Texas counties and 917th 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 Starr 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 | May 12, 2015 00:30 | May 13, 2015 03:30 | 1d 3h | 6,979 | 21K |
| 2 | April 24, 2015 06:00 | April 26, 2015 01:00 | 1d 19h | 3,296 | 15K |
| 3 | June 18, 2015 13:45 | June 18, 2015 18:15 | 4h 30m | 2,677 | 5,390 |
| 4 | January 28, 2015 20:45 | January 28, 2015 21:15 | 30m | 2,641 | 1,321 |
| 5 | January 14, 2015 16:30 | January 14, 2015 20:15 | 3h 45m | 2,639 | 2,013 |
| 6 | May 29, 2015 11:30 | June 5, 2015 12:00 | 7d | 2,205 | 7,790 |
| 7 | May 21, 2015 15:15 | May 22, 2015 20:30 | 1d 5h | 2,093 | 3,809 |
| 8 | March 16, 2015 20:00 | March 16, 2015 20:15 | 15m | 1,662 | 416 |
| 9 | September 25, 2015 22:30 | September 28, 2015 16:45 | 2d 18h | 1,594 | 1,527 |
| 10 | April 13, 2015 02:45 | April 13, 2015 21:00 | 18h 15m | 1,548 | 4,057 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 45 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Starr 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 |
| 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 ÷ 31,014 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. Starr County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starr 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/starr-county