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2017 Hidalgo County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hidalgo County, TX went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 168th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2476th 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 Hidalgo 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 | June 21, 2017 04:15 | June 21, 2017 07:30 | 3h 15m | 4,392 | 7,084 |
| 2 | December 6, 2017 10:30 | December 10, 2017 10:30 | 4d | 4,300 | 56K |
| 3 | December 19, 2017 10:45 | December 20, 2017 03:30 | 16h 45m | 3,281 | 6,515 |
| 4 | May 29, 2017 07:30 | May 30, 2017 05:15 | 21h 45m | 2,538 | 6,853 |
| 5 | June 22, 2017 19:15 | June 23, 2017 05:30 | 10h 15m | 2,361 | 2,510 |
| 6 | June 21, 2017 18:30 | June 22, 2017 04:00 | 9h 30m | 2,324 | 2,475 |
| 7 | June 6, 2017 23:30 | June 7, 2017 05:30 | 6h | 2,321 | 4,991 |
| 8 | December 28, 2017 11:45 | December 29, 2017 11:45 | 1d | 2,160 | 2,931 |
| 9 | November 26, 2017 10:30 | November 27, 2017 09:30 | 23h | 2,076 | 2,445 |
| 10 | November 13, 2017 18:30 | November 13, 2017 22:30 | 4h | 1,584 | 1,803 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 66 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| 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 | - |
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 ÷ 753,680 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county