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2017 Brooks County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Brooks County, TX went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 249 Texas counties and 800th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brooks 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 11, 2017 10:30 | December 11, 2017 22:00 | 11h 30m | 1,408 | 2,937 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 05:00 | December 10, 2017 00:00 | 1d 19h | 1,254 | 14K |
| 3 | December 16, 2017 10:15 | December 16, 2017 16:15 | 6h | 1,078 | 600 |
| 4 | December 7, 2017 07:45 | December 7, 2017 17:00 | 9h 15m | 209 | 1,580 |
| 5 | December 19, 2017 14:30 | December 19, 2017 17:00 | 2h 30m | 96 | 218 |
| 6 | November 27, 2017 03:00 | November 27, 2017 05:15 | 2h 15m | 81 | 69 |
| 7 | December 22, 2017 15:15 | December 23, 2017 00:30 | 9h 15m | 71 | 489 |
| 8 | December 12, 2017 15:30 | December 13, 2017 02:15 | 10h 45m | 67 | 149 |
| 9 | December 15, 2017 15:45 | December 15, 2017 18:00 | 2h 15m | 47 | 106 |
| 10 | December 23, 2017 04:00 | December 23, 2017 17:30 | 13h 30m | 47 | 77 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Brooks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2017 | 34.2 hrs | 2.22 | 2.8 hrs | 1.57 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 6.2 hrs | 2.69 | 4.0 hrs | 1.53 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 9.5 hrs | 2.70 | 2.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 3,092 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. Brooks County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brooks 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/brooks-county