County annual report · FIPS 48015
2016 Austin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Austin County, TX went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 119 Texas counties and 959th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Austin County, 2016
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 17, 2016 23:30 | April 18, 2016 13:00 | 13h 30m | 1,897 | 3,947 |
| 2 | April 18, 2016 13:45 | April 22, 2016 00:15 | 3d 10h | 1,524 | 4,075 |
| 3 | November 7, 2016 00:15 | November 8, 2016 17:00 | 1d 16h | 1,135 | 1,622 |
| 4 | August 2, 2016 09:45 | August 2, 2016 10:30 | 45m | 1,080 | 503 |
| 5 | May 26, 2016 19:00 | June 3, 2016 19:30 | 8d | 769 | 8,948 |
| 6 | August 24, 2016 15:45 | August 24, 2016 16:15 | 30m | 614 | 154 |
| 7 | May 19, 2016 18:45 | May 19, 2016 20:15 | 1h 30m | 511 | 131 |
| 8 | March 9, 2016 15:45 | March 9, 2016 23:30 | 7h 45m | 469 | 227 |
| 9 | April 27, 2016 00:45 | April 27, 2016 22:30 | 21h 45m | 461 | 2,244 |
| 10 | August 18, 2016 14:45 | August 23, 2016 18:15 | 5d 3h | 372 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Austin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 7.3 hrs | 1.70 | 3.3 hrs | 1.32 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 1.83 | 2.2 hrs | 1.32 |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 10.5 hrs | 2.20 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bellville - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,780 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. Austin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Austin County, TX annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/texas/austin-county