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2016 Orange County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orange County, TX went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 237K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 119 Texas counties and 283rd 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 Orange 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 | March 13, 2016 20:30 | March 29, 2016 21:00 | 16d | 4,522 | 22K |
| 2 | October 13, 2016 10:00 | October 13, 2016 16:45 | 6h 45m | 4,482 | 3,373 |
| 3 | January 15, 2016 18:00 | January 15, 2016 21:00 | 3h | 3,792 | 1,076 |
| 4 | February 15, 2016 17:00 | February 15, 2016 21:00 | 4h | 3,402 | 4,922 |
| 5 | May 12, 2016 20:30 | May 13, 2016 02:45 | 6h 15m | 3,228 | 1,475 |
| 6 | May 10, 2016 08:00 | May 10, 2016 11:30 | 3h 30m | 3,191 | 7,927 |
| 7 | November 28, 2016 13:15 | November 28, 2016 22:30 | 9h 15m | 2,882 | 4,323 |
| 8 | September 28, 2016 13:00 | September 28, 2016 16:15 | 3h 15m | 2,770 | 3,001 |
| 9 | March 8, 2016 17:30 | March 9, 2016 04:15 | 10h 45m | 2,503 | 5,813 |
| 10 | February 23, 2016 22:15 | February 24, 2016 10:15 | 12h | 2,501 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 123 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2016 | 9.1 hrs | 2.17 | 3.3 hrs | 1.73 |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 11.5 hrs | 2.86 | 7.0 hrs | 2.21 |
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 ÷ 19,786 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county