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2017 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 223rd worst of 249 Texas counties and 2612th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell 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 | December 24, 2017 14:30 | December 24, 2017 22:30 | 8h | 1,159 | 1,171 |
| 2 | December 19, 2017 07:00 | December 19, 2017 22:45 | 15h 45m | 302 | 784 |
| 3 | December 20, 2017 11:15 | December 20, 2017 23:45 | 12h 30m | 195 | 305 |
| 4 | December 4, 2017 13:45 | December 5, 2017 00:30 | 10h 45m | 190 | 241 |
| 5 | December 1, 2017 14:45 | December 1, 2017 22:30 | 7h 45m | 182 | 297 |
| 6 | November 26, 2017 14:00 | November 26, 2017 17:15 | 3h 15m | 175 | 293 |
| 7 | December 15, 2017 14:00 | December 15, 2017 20:00 | 6h | 157 | 222 |
| 8 | December 7, 2017 22:30 | December 8, 2017 11:30 | 13h | 136 | 554 |
| 9 | November 30, 2017 14:45 | November 30, 2017 20:45 | 6h | 113 | 215 |
| 10 | December 13, 2017 11:30 | December 13, 2017 19:45 | 8h 15m | 112 | 415 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Bell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 71 min | 0.67 | 71 min | 0.67 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.2 hrs | 2.20 | 1.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.23 | 48 min | 0.65 |
| City of Bartlett - (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 ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell 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/bell-county