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2017 Refugio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Refugio County, TX went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 9,678 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 249 Texas counties and 1369th 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 Refugio 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 00:15 | December 5, 2017 04:45 | 4h 30m | 811 | 1,049 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 04:30 | December 8, 2017 20:45 | 16h 15m | 787 | 4,578 |
| 3 | November 27, 2017 08:00 | November 27, 2017 10:45 | 2h 45m | 742 | 1,992 |
| 4 | December 11, 2017 15:15 | December 11, 2017 22:00 | 6h 45m | 114 | 299 |
| 5 | December 6, 2017 00:15 | December 6, 2017 05:45 | 5h 30m | 109 | 544 |
| 6 | December 6, 2017 10:45 | December 6, 2017 15:30 | 4h 45m | 98 | 299 |
| 7 | December 8, 2017 21:30 | December 9, 2017 03:45 | 6h 15m | 59 | 201 |
| 8 | December 19, 2017 16:00 | December 19, 2017 19:00 | 3h | 59 | 145 |
| 9 | November 29, 2017 22:45 | November 30, 2017 02:45 | 4h | 49 | 183 |
| 10 | December 15, 2017 19:45 | December 15, 2017 22:00 | 2h 15m | 20 | 45 |
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 Refugio 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 |
| Victoria Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 162.4 hrs | 5.03 | 5.1 hrs | 2.17 |
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 ÷ 3,401 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. Refugio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Refugio 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/refugio-county