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2017 San Patricio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in San Patricio County, TX went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 128th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2288th 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 San Patricio 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 19, 2017 05:15 | December 19, 2017 07:15 | 2h | 1,800 | 2,701 |
| 2 | August 25, 2017 22:00 | August 27, 2017 13:00 | 1d 15h | 420 | 3,127 |
| 3 | December 19, 2017 15:00 | December 19, 2017 22:45 | 7h 45m | 374 | 2,111 |
| 4 | November 29, 2017 14:00 | November 29, 2017 23:45 | 9h 45m | 355 | 1,495 |
| 5 | December 6, 2017 00:15 | December 9, 2017 05:15 | 3d 5h | 291 | 3,737 |
| 6 | July 22, 2017 18:30 | July 22, 2017 21:15 | 2h 45m | 254 | 187 |
| 7 | July 8, 2017 03:30 | July 8, 2017 04:00 | 30m | 246 | 62 |
| 8 | July 8, 2017 04:45 | July 8, 2017 05:15 | 30m | 246 | 123 |
| 9 | December 26, 2017 14:15 | December 26, 2017 16:00 | 1h 45m | 244 | 156 |
| 10 | December 23, 2017 03:00 | December 23, 2017 06:15 | 3h 15m | 199 | 247 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 San Patricio 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 |
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 ÷ 35,667 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. San Patricio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Patricio 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/san-patricio-county