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2017 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 133rd worst of 249 Texas counties and 2330th 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 Wharton 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 8, 2017 07:30 | December 8, 2017 18:15 | 10h 45m | 1,638 | 6,852 |
| 2 | December 6, 2017 12:00 | December 6, 2017 17:15 | 5h 15m | 1,616 | 792 |
| 3 | December 15, 2017 09:30 | December 15, 2017 21:30 | 12h | 393 | 957 |
| 4 | December 4, 2017 16:30 | December 4, 2017 21:30 | 5h | 179 | 247 |
| 5 | December 8, 2017 20:30 | December 9, 2017 07:45 | 11h 15m | 170 | 571 |
| 6 | December 9, 2017 18:30 | December 10, 2017 00:30 | 6h | 163 | 139 |
| 7 | November 21, 2017 00:00 | November 21, 2017 00:45 | 45m | 66 | 19 |
| 8 | November 26, 2017 17:30 | November 26, 2017 17:45 | 15m | 65 | 16 |
| 9 | November 23, 2017 13:30 | November 23, 2017 20:15 | 6h 45m | 53 | 77 |
| 10 | December 11, 2017 15:45 | December 11, 2017 22:00 | 6h 15m | 48 | 108 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Wharton 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2017 | 7.6 hrs | 1.80 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County 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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county