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2015 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 177th worst of 238 Texas counties and 1562nd 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 Wharton 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 26, 2015 22:30 | April 27, 2015 02:45 | 4h 15m | 2,353 | 2,169 |
| 2 | January 10, 2015 16:45 | January 10, 2015 19:15 | 2h 30m | 1,812 | 2,422 |
| 3 | April 17, 2015 22:15 | April 18, 2015 19:15 | 21h | 1,408 | 3,312 |
| 4 | February 10, 2015 18:00 | February 10, 2015 19:15 | 1h 15m | 698 | 872 |
| 5 | June 16, 2015 22:15 | June 19, 2015 02:00 | 2d 3h | 696 | 11K |
| 6 | January 8, 2015 10:45 | January 8, 2015 17:30 | 6h 45m | 383 | 547 |
| 7 | March 6, 2015 01:00 | March 6, 2015 01:30 | 30m | 239 | 60 |
| 8 | January 5, 2015 13:15 | January 6, 2015 17:00 | 1d 3h | 235 | 2,678 |
| 9 | January 6, 2015 18:15 | January 6, 2015 20:00 | 1h 45m | 232 | 232 |
| 10 | January 6, 2015 20:45 | January 6, 2015 21:00 | 15m | 231 | 58 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 44 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 Wharton 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2015 | 4.3 hrs | 1.98 | 2.2 hrs | 1.33 |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county