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2017 Hays County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hays County, TX went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 249 Texas counties and 1800th 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 Hays 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 | May 16, 2017 13:00 | May 16, 2017 22:30 | 9h 30m | 6,201 | 2,626 |
| 2 | May 21, 2017 21:00 | May 22, 2017 05:00 | 8h | 5,540 | 8,417 |
| 3 | October 14, 2017 23:45 | October 15, 2017 04:45 | 5h | 5,255 | 5,427 |
| 4 | June 1, 2017 17:30 | June 1, 2017 21:15 | 3h 45m | 4,144 | 1,073 |
| 5 | July 21, 2017 15:00 | July 21, 2017 18:00 | 3h | 3,605 | 1,140 |
| 6 | December 13, 2017 07:00 | December 13, 2017 07:30 | 30m | 3,597 | 1,406 |
| 7 | August 26, 2017 10:45 | August 28, 2017 06:30 | 1d 19h | 2,956 | 27K |
| 8 | August 7, 2017 10:15 | August 7, 2017 23:00 | 12h 45m | 2,466 | 3,129 |
| 9 | October 20, 2017 15:45 | October 20, 2017 23:45 | 8h | 2,394 | 1,812 |
| 10 | July 17, 2017 13:15 | July 17, 2017 19:45 | 6h 30m | 2,141 | 548 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 56 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Hays 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 71 min | 0.67 | 71 min | 0.67 |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.31 | 1.7 hrs | 1.11 |
| Austin Energy | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.02 | 63 min | 0.85 |
| City of San Marcos - (TX) | 2017 | 66 min | 0.56 | - | - |
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 ÷ 71,175 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. Hays County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hays 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/hays-county