2016 Texas Power Outage Report

In 2016, the average Texas customer went without power for about 1.2 hours, the 43rd worst of 49 states (US average 3.8 hours). Figures from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, including major storm days.

Avg hrs / customer

1.2

vs prior year

▼ 40%

vs 2015

Customer-hours out

9.2M

Peak customers out

71,268

across the state at once

EAGLE-I coverage

n/a

of TX customers

Counties reporting

119

Texas year over year

Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Month by month, 2016

Customer-hours without power across Texas; May was the worst.

CSV JSON

All 119 Texas counties, 2016

Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Each county links to its annual report.

CSV JSON

#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	Grimes County	57.0	178K	3,131	3,131	479
2	San Jacinto County	35.6	191K	5,355	3,741	257
3	Medina County	27.4	434K	15,806	4,757	440
4	Tyler County	27.3	122K	4,478	4,478	390
5	Lee County	18.7	42K	2,223	2,223	459
6	Hardin County	14.1	172K	12,194	7,822	665
7	Burleson County	13.2	28K	2,155	2,155	447
8	Lavaca County	12.9	28K	2,165	2,165	360
9	Orange County	12.0	237K	19,786	4,522	929
10	Waller County	11.5	214K	18,532	5,397	360
11	Jefferson County	10.3	534K	51,659	11,409	1,033
12	Montgomery County	10.3	2.4M	230,040	31,003	906
13	Sherman County	8.3	5,350	643	643	50
14	Collingsworth County	8.0	10K	1,249	1,249	68
15	Hall County	7.0	12K	1,741	1,560	64
16	Robertson County	6.9	19K	2,755	2,755	218
17	Trinity County	6.1	40K	6,541	2,664	311
18	Liberty County	6.0	263K	44,189	4,705	771
19	Gregg County	5.7	368K	64,306	8,195	771
20	Walker County	5.6	93K	16,570	3,164	540
21	Bastrop County	5.5	98K	17,828	5,211	769
22	Camp County	4.9	29K	5,954	1,783	95
23	Madison County	4.1	9,104	2,203	901	227
24	Armstrong County	4.1	1,859	452	224	40
25	Bowie County	3.9	453K	116,979	10,460	839
26	Colorado County	3.9	31K	8,146	1,459	417
27	Rusk County	3.8	100K	26,571	3,259	457
28	Moore County	3.5	23K	6,456	2,340	246
29	Franklin County	3.5	19K	5,481	904	157
30	Gonzales County	3.4	24K	6,999	1,910	552
31	Hutchinson County	3.3	23K	6,978	2,594	300
32	Hudspeth County	3.3	3,742	1,141	465	59
33	Austin County	3.1	31K	9,780	1,897	430
34	Washington County	3.0	39K	12,824	3,068	601
35	Dallam County	2.9	3,744	1,292	1,292	117
36	Wheeler County	2.8	6,495	2,320	331	133
37	Hartley County	2.8	3,005	1,077	431	61
38	Wood County	2.5	40K	16,030	1,832	240
39	Randall County	2.4	83K	34,619	5,121	570
40	Marion County	2.4	12K	5,005	1,090	111
41	Oldham County	2.3	2,159	948	948	61
42	Upshur County	2.2	41K	18,224	1,579	246
43	Hansford County	2.1	2,994	1,398	872	106
44	Harrison County	2.1	108K	50,385	3,037	528
45	Polk County	2.0	23K	11,122	773	139
46	Lipscomb County	2.0	2,876	1,445	1,093	80
47	Panola County	1.9	26K	13,869	3,341	208
48	Chambers County	1.9	49K	26,381	1,629	406
49	Carson County	1.7	6,953	4,187	779	206
50	Floyd County	1.6	4,480	2,808	989	131
51	Potter County	1.6	62K	38,898	4,516	631
52	El Paso County	1.5	540K	349,484	15,755	969
53	Cass County	1.5	23K	15,244	1,229	298
54	DeWitt County	1.5	18K	11,595	806	390
55	Gaines County	1.5	21K	13,871	3,224	324
56	Morris County	1.5	9,599	6,447	485	156
57	Titus County	1.5	25K	16,993	1,860	186
58	Shelby County	1.5	21K	14,484	1,095	142
59	Gray County	1.3	9,214	7,103	776	337
60	Travis County	1.2	742K	641,926	20,348	810
61	Hemphill County	1.1	1,305	1,189	1,189	46
62	Fayette County	1.1	4,034	3,732	1,088	169
63	Caldwell County	1.1	23K	21,268	1,965	583
64	Goliad County	1.1	2,407	2,269	177	56
65	Limestone County	1.0	4,250	4,241	467	33
66	Deaf Smith County	1.0	12K	12,107	6,860	159
67	Hale County	1.0	15K	15,402	2,054	345
68	Childress County	1.0	2,394	2,451	113	33
69	Culberson County	1.0	959	1,000	1,000	33
70	Donley County	0.9	1,520	1,704	253	97
71	Lamb County	0.9	7,247	8,331	1,263	184
72	Parmer County	0.8	6,350	7,651	1,714	83
73	Guadalupe County	0.7	71K	97,083	3,419	1,026
74	Crosby County	0.7	1,896	2,609	510	108
75	Bexar County	0.7	698K	1,024,586	19,187	623
76	Ochiltree County	0.7	3,233	4,973	214	139
77	Van Zandt County	0.5	13K	23,878	2,247	127
78	Cochran County	0.5	852	1,637	96	79
79	Hockley County	0.5	5,495	10,853	884	204
80	Yoakum County	0.5	1,791	3,573	447	124
81	Castro County	0.5	2,431	5,080	929	57
82	Falls County	0.4	1,634	4,156	231	29
83	Terry County	0.3	1,222	4,311	265	35
84	Swisher County	0.2	645	2,662	174	54
85	Garza County	0.2	639	2,693	323	68
86	Wilson County	0.2	7,940	33,619	1,108	274
87	Leon County	0.2	1,557	7,489	539	47
88	Red River County	0.2	1,415	7,161	363	15
89	Karnes County	0.2	907	5,783	73	58
90	Comal County	0.2	14K	91,334	1,045	289
91	Bailey County	0.2	739	4,857	178	70
92	Galveston County	0.1	21K	144,421	4,814	254
93	Lynn County	0.1	331	2,405	40	47
94	Williamson County	0.1	37K	299,583	1,534	274
95	Atascosa County	0.1	1,993	18,992	191	159
96	Anderson County	0.1	1,713	29,000	631	38
97	Henderson County	0.1	3,253	55,808	1,121	72
98	Lubbock County	0.1	13K	222,871	3,100	184
99	Hopkins County	0.0	1,011	21,115	248	26
100	Bandera County	0.0	61	1,495	10	11
101	Milam County	0.0	330	8,681	287	43
102	Briscoe County	0.0	21	589	1	7
103	Smith County	0.0	4,434	129,054	323	57
104	Newton County	0.0	134	4,202	7	13
105	Harris County	0.0	23K	1,827,686	830	134
106	Rains County	0.0	48	5,322	51	6
107	Kaufman County	0.0	676	74,765	733	61
108	Victoria County	0.0	393	49,048	156	16
109	Hays County	0.0	521	71,175	142	117
110	Hunt County	0.0	265	45,067	89	12
111	Brazos County	0.0	384	73,982	119	20
112	Jasper County	0.0	53	15,308	13	14
113	Houston County	0.0	29	11,682	4	3
114	Cameron County	0.0	574	262,299	412	5
115	Kendall County	0.0	42	21,038	16	4
116	Angelina County	0.0	36	47,178	10	6
117	Freestone County	0.0	0	8,915	1	1
118	Dallas County	0.0	2	948,355	1	2
119	Roberts County	-	2,135	-	584	41

Biggest Texas outages of 2016

Up to 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.

CSV JSON

#	County	Started (UTC)	Ended (UTC)	Duration	Peak out	Customer-hours
1	Montgomery County, TX	May 26, 2016 13:15	June 3, 2016 03:45	7d 14h	31,003	1.4M
2	Montgomery County, TX	April 27, 2016 04:15	April 30, 2016 05:15	3d 1h	26,740	365K
3	Travis County, TX	April 27, 2016 07:30	April 30, 2016 07:45	3d	20,348	163K
4	Bexar County, TX	May 29, 2016 05:15	May 29, 2016 12:45	7h 30m	19,187	63K
5	El Paso County, TX	September 30, 2016 07:15	October 1, 2016 00:45	17h 30m	15,755	38K
6	Jefferson County, TX	April 27, 2016 11:30	April 28, 2016 06:30	19h	11,409	38K
7	Travis County, TX	June 28, 2016 12:00	June 30, 2016 05:45	1d 17h	10,879	57K
8	Montgomery County, TX	March 21, 2016 13:45	March 22, 2016 01:30	11h 45m	10,861	19K
9	Travis County, TX	April 30, 2016 10:00	May 2, 2016 02:45	1d 16h	10,547	70K
10	Bowie County, TX	May 10, 2016 03:15	May 12, 2016 15:45	2d 12h	10,460	142K
11	El Paso County, TX	April 7, 2016 03:00	April 7, 2016 04:00	1h	10,329	7,394
12	Montgomery County, TX	October 9, 2016 10:15	October 9, 2016 11:15	1h	9,733	7,262
13	Bexar County, TX	March 9, 2016 06:00	March 9, 2016 07:30	1h 30m	9,418	6,807
14	El Paso County, TX	April 4, 2016 11:15	April 4, 2016 13:30	2h 15m	8,930	2,323
15	Bexar County, TX	June 1, 2016 00:45	June 2, 2016 09:00	1d 8h	8,799	13K
16	El Paso County, TX	December 17, 2016 14:45	December 18, 2016 07:00	16h 15m	8,673	33K
17	Montgomery County, TX	April 18, 2016 02:30	April 18, 2016 13:00	10h 30m	8,594	29K
18	Bexar County, TX	April 29, 2016 11:30	April 30, 2016 04:00	16h 30m	8,447	8,994
19	Gregg County, TX	April 29, 2016 23:15	May 2, 2016 18:30	2d 19h	8,195	72K
20	Bexar County, TX	October 11, 2016 13:00	October 12, 2016 05:45	16h 45m	8,091	2,505
21	Hardin County, TX	June 18, 2016 21:45	June 20, 2016 00:00	1d 2h	7,822	55K
22	Montgomery County, TX	June 14, 2016 13:45	June 16, 2016 09:45	1d 20h	7,792	18K
23	Gregg County, TX	October 24, 2016 23:45	October 25, 2016 03:45	4h	7,658	11K
24	Gregg County, TX	October 25, 2016 23:30	October 26, 2016 02:30	3h	7,646	9,522
25	El Paso County, TX	April 29, 2016 16:00	April 29, 2016 18:30	2h 30m	7,628	15K

EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Texas's electricity customers in 2016; outages at utilities it does not see are not counted. Hours per customer divide outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers.

Texas by year:2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2015

Other states in 2016:NC WV SC VA ME FL LA AR

Part of the 2016 US Power Outage Report.

Data from DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read.