County annual report · FIPS 48477
2017 Washington County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, TX went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 249 Texas counties and 1162nd 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 Washington 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 | July 21, 2017 13:00 | July 21, 2017 19:45 | 6h 45m | 14,504 | 8,992 |
| 2 | April 14, 2017 13:15 | April 14, 2017 15:15 | 2h | 3,324 | 2,753 |
| 3 | January 8, 2017 11:45 | January 8, 2017 18:30 | 6h 45m | 2,706 | 3,029 |
| 4 | July 16, 2017 03:30 | July 16, 2017 03:45 | 15m | 1,512 | 378 |
| 5 | April 26, 2017 21:15 | April 26, 2017 23:45 | 2h 30m | 1,501 | 399 |
| 6 | January 22, 2017 15:15 | January 22, 2017 23:00 | 7h 45m | 1,497 | 2,594 |
| 7 | June 30, 2017 13:15 | June 30, 2017 20:45 | 7h 30m | 1,211 | 311 |
| 8 | August 26, 2017 10:45 | August 29, 2017 00:45 | 2d 14h | 786 | 10K |
| 9 | June 24, 2017 17:00 | June 24, 2017 23:30 | 6h 30m | 743 | 1,333 |
| 10 | October 30, 2017 19:00 | October 30, 2017 20:00 | 1h | 740 | 370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 38 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Washington 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 |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.31 | 1.7 hrs | 1.11 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Brenham - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,824 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county