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2016 Travis County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Travis County, TX went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 742K customer-hours (Texas average 1.2 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 119 Texas counties and 1696th 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 Travis 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 27, 2016 07:30 | April 30, 2016 07:45 | 3d | 20,348 | 163K |
| 2 | June 28, 2016 12:00 | June 30, 2016 05:45 | 1d 17h | 10,879 | 57K |
| 3 | April 30, 2016 10:00 | May 2, 2016 02:45 | 1d 16h | 10,547 | 70K |
| 4 | December 27, 2016 13:30 | December 28, 2016 01:45 | 12h 15m | 5,923 | 4,100 |
| 5 | November 22, 2016 14:00 | November 24, 2016 01:00 | 1d 11h | 5,586 | 6,672 |
| 6 | March 10, 2016 10:45 | March 11, 2016 02:15 | 15h 30m | 5,334 | 2,049 |
| 7 | April 23, 2016 06:15 | April 23, 2016 13:30 | 7h 15m | 4,871 | 3,664 |
| 8 | November 8, 2016 13:30 | November 9, 2016 10:30 | 21h | 4,695 | 4,916 |
| 9 | January 18, 2016 07:45 | January 19, 2016 04:00 | 20h 15m | 4,627 | 22K |
| 10 | November 19, 2016 09:30 | November 20, 2016 02:00 | 16h 30m | 4,285 | 4,582 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 240 reached 100+ customers, 65 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Travis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.72 | 2.4 hrs | 1.43 |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 7.3 hrs | 1.70 | 3.3 hrs | 1.32 |
| Austin Energy | 2016 | 85 min | 0.75 | 56 min | 0.64 |
| Pedernales Electric 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 641,926 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. Travis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Travis 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/travis-county