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2017 Willacy County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Willacy County, TX went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 3,268 customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 154th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2423rd 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 Willacy 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 6, 2017 19:30 | October 6, 2017 22:30 | 3h | 338 | 876 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 15:15 | December 9, 2017 08:00 | 16h 45m | 326 | 479 |
| 3 | July 18, 2017 19:15 | July 18, 2017 23:30 | 4h 15m | 137 | 207 |
| 4 | July 27, 2017 19:15 | July 27, 2017 20:15 | 1h | 136 | 136 |
| 5 | May 29, 2017 08:15 | May 29, 2017 13:30 | 5h 15m | 105 | 159 |
| 6 | November 25, 2017 17:15 | November 25, 2017 19:00 | 1h 45m | 87 | 33 |
| 7 | June 2, 2017 02:30 | June 2, 2017 03:15 | 45m | 70 | 44 |
| 8 | July 13, 2017 23:00 | July 14, 2017 01:45 | 2h 45m | 43 | 24 |
| 9 | August 24, 2017 16:15 | August 24, 2017 18:15 | 2h | 33 | 51 |
| 10 | June 5, 2017 14:00 | June 5, 2017 21:30 | 7h 30m | 28 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Willacy 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,642 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. Willacy County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Willacy 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/willacy-county