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2017 Orange County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Orange County, TX went without power for an average of 180.2 hours, a total of 3.6M customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 249 Texas counties and 5th 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 Orange 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 27, 2017 21:45 | September 18, 2017 00:45 | 21d 3h | 30,535 | 3.4M |
| 2 | January 27, 2017 05:45 | January 27, 2017 08:30 | 2h 45m | 7,855 | 12K |
| 3 | December 29, 2017 14:30 | December 29, 2017 19:00 | 4h 30m | 4,432 | 7,275 |
| 4 | June 24, 2017 11:00 | June 25, 2017 03:30 | 16h 30m | 4,103 | 7,000 |
| 5 | October 1, 2017 13:00 | October 1, 2017 17:30 | 4h 30m | 4,073 | 5,102 |
| 6 | September 19, 2017 12:30 | September 21, 2017 01:30 | 1d 13h | 3,918 | 13K |
| 7 | February 23, 2017 23:15 | February 23, 2017 23:45 | 30m | 3,579 | 906 |
| 8 | September 30, 2017 20:45 | October 1, 2017 06:30 | 9h 45m | 2,483 | 3,076 |
| 9 | July 30, 2017 11:30 | July 30, 2017 11:45 | 15m | 2,427 | 607 |
| 10 | August 17, 2017 18:45 | August 18, 2017 04:45 | 10h | 2,198 | 3,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 86 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2017 | 23.3 hrs | 2.33 | 3.7 hrs | 1.60 |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 38.8 hrs | 3.54 | 9.1 hrs | 1.66 |
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 ÷ 19,786 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county