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County annual report · FIPS 48465

2017 Val Verde County, TX Power Outage Report

In 2017, customers in Val Verde County, TX went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 4,242 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 164th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2459th of 2,786 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
0.2
18,757 customers
Customer-hours out
4,242
Peak customers out
2,291
Outages ≥1,000 out
1
0 of 10,000+ · 63 total
Longest outage
10h 30m
began December 26, 2017
Rank in state
164th/249
2459th of 2,786 US

Compared with TX, the US and 2015

Val Verde County, TX average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2017Val Verde County 0.2 hours, Texas average 1.6 hours, US average 7.4 hours, Val Verde County, 2015 8.1 hoursVal Verde CountyVal Verde County0.2hTexas averageTexas average1.6hUS averageUS average7.4hVal Verde County, 2015Val Verde County, 20…8.1h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2017; last bar is this county in 2015.

Month by month

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Val Verde County, TX customer-hours without power by month, 2017Jan 0, Feb 0, Mar 0, Apr 0, May 0, Jun 0, Jul 0, Aug 0, Sep 0, Oct 0, Nov 242, Dec 4,00001k2k3k4k0Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May0Jun0Jul0Aug0Sep0Oct242Nov4,000Dec
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Customer-hours; December was the worst month.

Val Verde County year over year

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Val Verde County, TX: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 8.1h; 2016: no data; 2017: 0.2h; 2018: 4.8h, coverage 90%; 2019: 3.0h, coverage 93%; 2020: 8.2h, coverage 63%; 2021: 48.9h, coverage 94%; 2022: 5.1h, coverage 93%; 2023: 4.9h; 2024: 8.1h; 2025: 7.4h02040600%50%100%8.1h2015n/a20160.2h20174.8h20183.0h20198.2h202048.9h20215.1h20224.9h20238.1h20247.4h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Val Verde County, 2017

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1December 7, 2017 11:00December 7, 2017 19:308h 30m2,2912,398
2December 10, 2017 02:45December 10, 2017 03:1530m19196
3December 6, 2017 23:30December 7, 2017 00:451h 15m190189
4December 10, 2017 04:00December 10, 2017 05:151h 15m18450
5December 26, 2017 17:00December 27, 2017 03:3010h 30m178278
6November 25, 2017 15:15November 25, 2017 18:002h 45m79142
7December 2, 2017 01:30December 2, 2017 08:457h 15m67383
8December 28, 2017 16:00December 28, 2017 17:301h 30m4436
9December 8, 2017 19:15December 8, 2017 20:451h 30m2030
10December 24, 2017 17:45December 24, 2017 18:3045m1814

Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Val Verde County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
AEP Texas Central Company201734.2 hrs2.222.8 hrs1.57
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc-----
Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc-----

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 ÷ 18,757 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. Val Verde County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Val Verde 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/val-verde-county

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Live outages in Val Verde County2017 Texas report2017 US report