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2018 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 198th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1978th 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 Bell 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 | September 20, 2018 17:15 | September 23, 2018 06:15 | 2d 13h | 6,902 | 8,314 |
| 2 | March 12, 2018 14:45 | March 12, 2018 23:45 | 9h | 3,923 | 1,248 |
| 3 | August 11, 2018 03:45 | August 12, 2018 08:15 | 1d 4h | 3,881 | 9,294 |
| 4 | April 12, 2018 12:45 | April 15, 2018 11:30 | 2d 22h | 3,584 | 12K |
| 5 | October 3, 2018 20:00 | October 4, 2018 14:30 | 18h 30m | 3,528 | 1,033 |
| 6 | October 21, 2018 17:15 | October 22, 2018 09:30 | 16h 15m | 3,357 | 6,047 |
| 7 | November 8, 2018 15:00 | November 8, 2018 23:30 | 8h 30m | 3,234 | 1,914 |
| 8 | October 13, 2018 12:00 | October 17, 2018 05:15 | 3d 17h | 2,865 | 14K |
| 9 | January 15, 2018 23:00 | January 19, 2018 06:15 | 3d 7h | 2,790 | 28K |
| 10 | March 28, 2018 07:15 | March 29, 2018 11:30 | 1d 4h | 2,672 | 8,772 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 138 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Bell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 61 min | 0.77 | 55 min | 0.77 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.01 | 50 min | 0.62 |
| City of Bartlett - (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 ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell 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/bell-county