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2017 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 155th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2428th 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 Cameron 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 7, 2017 04:30 | December 9, 2017 08:45 | 2d 4h | 2,702 | 25K |
| 2 | June 26, 2017 09:15 | June 26, 2017 11:30 | 2h 15m | 1,555 | 2,722 |
| 3 | September 17, 2017 08:30 | September 17, 2017 12:15 | 3h 45m | 1,228 | 2,458 |
| 4 | August 7, 2017 08:00 | August 7, 2017 10:45 | 2h 45m | 1,182 | 3,247 |
| 5 | July 7, 2017 17:45 | July 7, 2017 20:45 | 3h | 1,160 | 1,459 |
| 6 | December 23, 2017 06:15 | December 23, 2017 16:30 | 10h 15m | 1,018 | 1,340 |
| 7 | June 25, 2017 07:45 | June 25, 2017 20:15 | 12h 30m | 935 | 5,295 |
| 8 | July 24, 2017 21:45 | July 25, 2017 01:45 | 4h | 850 | 1,702 |
| 9 | November 26, 2017 08:00 | November 26, 2017 12:15 | 4h 15m | 745 | 391 |
| 10 | December 9, 2017 09:45 | December 10, 2017 03:00 | 17h 15m | 709 | 2,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 36 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Cameron 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 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2017 | 34 min | 0.29 | 14 min | 0.13 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county