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2017 Matagorda County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Matagorda County, TX went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 5,499 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 145th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2394th 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 Matagorda 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 20, 2017 15:30 | December 20, 2017 23:30 | 8h | 734 | 511 |
| 2 | December 19, 2017 19:00 | December 19, 2017 21:30 | 2h 30m | 728 | 202 |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 05:00 | December 9, 2017 09:30 | 1d 4h | 427 | 2,920 |
| 4 | December 7, 2017 13:45 | December 7, 2017 19:30 | 5h 45m | 163 | 597 |
| 5 | December 26, 2017 17:30 | December 26, 2017 18:45 | 1h 15m | 125 | 156 |
| 6 | December 16, 2017 16:45 | December 16, 2017 21:30 | 4h 45m | 85 | 120 |
| 7 | December 4, 2017 22:45 | December 5, 2017 00:45 | 2h | 76 | 80 |
| 8 | December 18, 2017 16:30 | December 18, 2017 17:00 | 30m | 38 | 11 |
| 9 | December 9, 2017 12:45 | December 9, 2017 17:00 | 4h 15m | 37 | 151 |
| 10 | December 29, 2017 17:30 | December 29, 2017 18:30 | 1h | 24 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Matagorda 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2017 | 7.6 hrs | 1.80 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,119 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. Matagorda County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Matagorda 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/matagorda-county