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2018 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 570K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 180th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1791st 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 Cameron 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 16, 2018 14:15 | January 19, 2018 07:45 | 2d 17h | 11,419 | 105K |
| 2 | June 19, 2018 13:15 | June 22, 2018 06:15 | 2d 17h | 11,177 | 42K |
| 3 | October 15, 2018 15:00 | October 17, 2018 02:45 | 1d 11h | 6,703 | 10K |
| 4 | November 22, 2018 20:45 | November 24, 2018 04:00 | 1d 7h | 6,189 | 19K |
| 5 | August 12, 2018 20:30 | August 13, 2018 05:45 | 9h 15m | 4,261 | 8,683 |
| 6 | September 7, 2018 11:15 | September 8, 2018 04:45 | 17h 30m | 3,697 | 7,125 |
| 7 | November 25, 2018 05:15 | November 25, 2018 09:00 | 3h 45m | 3,162 | 4,250 |
| 8 | January 1, 2018 11:30 | January 4, 2018 09:00 | 2d 21h | 2,790 | 21K |
| 9 | September 4, 2018 13:30 | September 5, 2018 02:45 | 13h 15m | 2,699 | 1,899 |
| 10 | February 28, 2018 14:00 | March 1, 2018 05:45 | 15h 45m | 2,692 | 6,127 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 225 reached 100+ customers, 44 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.81 | 2.8 hrs | 1.68 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2018 | 72 min | 0.88 | 9 min | 0.12 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county