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2017 Fort Bend County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fort Bend County, TX went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 225th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2617th 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 Fort Bend 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 15, 2017 11:00 | December 16, 2017 17:30 | 1d 6h | 5,980 | 10K |
| 2 | December 16, 2017 18:30 | December 17, 2017 08:45 | 14h 15m | 4,390 | 2,983 |
| 3 | December 23, 2017 07:15 | December 24, 2017 05:45 | 22h 30m | 3,585 | 5,650 |
| 4 | December 3, 2017 20:45 | December 5, 2017 03:30 | 1d 6h | 1,676 | 2,819 |
| 5 | November 23, 2017 10:30 | November 23, 2017 23:00 | 12h 30m | 1,214 | 1,364 |
| 6 | December 28, 2017 06:30 | December 29, 2017 06:30 | 1d | 656 | 658 |
| 7 | December 14, 2017 13:45 | December 15, 2017 02:45 | 13h | 255 | 537 |
| 8 | November 21, 2017 13:00 | November 22, 2017 02:00 | 13h | 200 | 815 |
| 9 | December 8, 2017 04:15 | December 10, 2017 14:00 | 2d 9h | 188 | 3,052 |
| 10 | December 18, 2017 06:00 | December 19, 2017 23:00 | 1d 17h | 186 | 2,040 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Fort Bend 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CenterPoint Energy | 2017 | 7.6 hrs | 1.80 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
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 ÷ 694,780 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. Fort Bend County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fort Bend 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/fort-bend-county