County annual report · FIPS 48061
2016 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 574 customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 119 Texas counties and 2361st 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 Cameron County, 2016
The 5 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 2, 2016 06:45 | June 2, 2016 08:00 | 1h 15m | 412 | 515 |
| 2 | October 27, 2016 18:15 | October 27, 2016 20:00 | 1h 45m | 15 | 26 |
| 3 | October 27, 2016 14:45 | October 27, 2016 16:30 | 1h 45m | 11 | 14 |
| 4 | October 26, 2016 18:15 | October 26, 2016 20:15 | 2h | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | October 26, 2016 14:30 | October 26, 2016 16:45 | 2h 15m | 3 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2016 | 4.7 hrs | 1.91 | 2.6 hrs | 1.59 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2016 | 9 min | 0.08 | 9 min | 0.08 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county