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2017 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1375th 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 Jim Wells 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 | August 25, 2017 20:00 | August 28, 2017 05:00 | 2d 9h | 3,372 | 34K |
| 2 | May 29, 2017 04:45 | May 30, 2017 02:30 | 21h 45m | 3,342 | 2,368 |
| 3 | December 13, 2017 13:45 | December 13, 2017 23:30 | 9h 45m | 838 | 299 |
| 4 | September 27, 2017 07:15 | September 27, 2017 10:15 | 3h | 397 | 695 |
| 5 | December 7, 2017 21:30 | December 8, 2017 20:45 | 23h 15m | 386 | 1,635 |
| 6 | August 24, 2017 02:30 | August 24, 2017 03:15 | 45m | 378 | 95 |
| 7 | August 25, 2017 16:45 | August 25, 2017 18:30 | 1h 45m | 303 | 237 |
| 8 | September 5, 2017 23:00 | September 6, 2017 04:15 | 5h 15m | 215 | 452 |
| 9 | May 21, 2017 13:30 | May 21, 2017 20:30 | 7h | 173 | 223 |
| 10 | July 26, 2017 19:00 | July 26, 2017 21:45 | 2h 45m | 156 | 239 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 57.1 hrs | 5.37 | 4.9 hrs | 2.52 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 9.5 hrs | 2.70 | 2.8 hrs | 1.37 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county