County annual report · FIPS 48355
2017 Nueces County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nueces County, TX went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 282K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 249 Texas counties and 1728th 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 Nueces 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 5, 2017 14:00 | December 10, 2017 08:15 | 4d 18h | 19,757 | 158K |
| 2 | August 25, 2017 17:30 | August 28, 2017 12:30 | 2d 19h | 4,367 | 74K |
| 3 | November 30, 2017 07:15 | December 4, 2017 14:00 | 4d 6h | 1,384 | 5,246 |
| 4 | December 25, 2017 02:45 | December 25, 2017 23:30 | 20h 45m | 996 | 531 |
| 5 | November 7, 2017 01:00 | November 7, 2017 04:00 | 3h | 730 | 2,190 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 15:00 | July 20, 2017 00:45 | 9h 45m | 709 | 661 |
| 7 | May 24, 2017 01:30 | May 24, 2017 01:45 | 15m | 693 | 173 |
| 8 | December 20, 2017 06:15 | December 23, 2017 13:30 | 3d 7h | 660 | 4,749 |
| 9 | June 9, 2017 00:45 | June 9, 2017 13:00 | 12h 15m | 637 | 7,127 |
| 10 | June 5, 2017 19:15 | June 6, 2017 03:15 | 8h | 616 | 786 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 38 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Nueces 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 |
| City of Robstown - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 162,267 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. Nueces County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nueces 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/nueces-county