County annual report · FIPS 48015
2017 Austin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Austin County, TX went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 8,760 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 108th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2091st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Austin County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 21, 2017 15:00 | July 21, 2017 15:30 | 30m | 1,947 | 686 |
| 2 | July 21, 2017 13:00 | July 21, 2017 13:30 | 30m | 1,185 | 593 |
| 3 | June 19, 2017 07:45 | June 19, 2017 08:45 | 1h | 507 | 478 |
| 4 | January 24, 2017 15:30 | January 24, 2017 17:00 | 1h 30m | 445 | 448 |
| 5 | February 19, 2017 09:00 | February 21, 2017 21:15 | 2d 12h | 405 | 249 |
| 6 | April 5, 2017 14:15 | April 5, 2017 16:15 | 2h | 308 | 616 |
| 7 | January 28, 2017 20:45 | January 28, 2017 23:00 | 2h 15m | 229 | 364 |
| 8 | March 25, 2017 00:45 | March 25, 2017 02:45 | 2h | 161 | 113 |
| 9 | December 8, 2017 05:45 | December 9, 2017 02:30 | 20h 45m | 142 | 599 |
| 10 | February 16, 2017 19:00 | February 16, 2017 19:45 | 45m | 134 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.31 | 1.7 hrs | 1.11 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2017 | 7.6 hrs | 1.80 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.33 | 1.8 hrs | 1.19 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/texas/austin-county