County annual report · FIPS 48015
2018 Austin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Austin County, TX went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 119th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1215th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Austin County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 3, 2018 10:00 | January 3, 2018 20:45 | 10h 45m | 1,881 | 4,467 |
| 2 | October 31, 2018 13:45 | November 1, 2018 04:15 | 14h 30m | 1,198 | 3,070 |
| 3 | June 21, 2018 08:45 | June 21, 2018 19:30 | 10h 45m | 791 | 1,080 |
| 4 | January 5, 2018 19:30 | January 25, 2018 14:30 | 19d 19h | 694 | 5,820 |
| 5 | December 7, 2018 16:30 | December 7, 2018 21:00 | 4h 30m | 572 | 591 |
| 6 | September 18, 2018 16:15 | September 18, 2018 18:15 | 2h | 568 | 702 |
| 7 | March 28, 2018 12:30 | March 29, 2018 17:15 | 1d 4h | 559 | 1,574 |
| 8 | May 29, 2018 11:15 | May 29, 2018 18:45 | 7h 30m | 516 | 1,275 |
| 9 | October 9, 2018 20:00 | October 10, 2018 22:15 | 1d 2h | 474 | 441 |
| 10 | June 19, 2018 18:45 | June 20, 2018 00:30 | 5h 45m | 449 | 282 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 30 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 Austin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.62 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.06 | 78 min | 0.94 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bellville - (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 90% of Texas's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,780 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. Austin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Austin County, TX annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/texas/austin-county