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2017 Starr County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Starr County, TX went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 6,131 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 169th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2479th 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 Starr 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 | October 7, 2017 06:45 | October 7, 2017 09:00 | 2h 15m | 498 | 1,121 |
| 2 | December 7, 2017 21:00 | December 10, 2017 03:00 | 2d 6h | 212 | 3,054 |
| 3 | December 7, 2017 07:00 | December 7, 2017 09:00 | 2h | 73 | 146 |
| 4 | November 22, 2017 07:15 | November 22, 2017 10:00 | 2h 45m | 61 | 168 |
| 5 | December 12, 2017 11:15 | December 12, 2017 23:00 | 11h 45m | 51 | 108 |
| 6 | December 13, 2017 16:00 | December 14, 2017 00:45 | 8h 45m | 48 | 196 |
| 7 | December 22, 2017 17:45 | December 22, 2017 18:45 | 1h | 32 | 20 |
| 8 | December 17, 2017 08:00 | December 17, 2017 13:00 | 5h | 30 | 91 |
| 9 | December 28, 2017 15:45 | December 29, 2017 03:00 | 11h 15m | 30 | 122 |
| 10 | December 10, 2017 15:15 | December 10, 2017 16:30 | 1h 15m | 22 | 28 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 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 Starr 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 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 6.2 hrs | 2.69 | 4.0 hrs | 1.53 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 31,014 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. Starr County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starr 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/starr-county