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2018 Fort Bend County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fort Bend County, TX went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 457K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 234th worst of 253 Texas counties and 2445th 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 Fort Bend 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 | May 21, 2018 02:00 | May 23, 2018 05:15 | 2d 3h | 12,354 | 22K |
| 2 | May 17, 2018 09:30 | May 19, 2018 08:45 | 1d 23h | 8,721 | 7,958 |
| 3 | November 12, 2018 13:00 | November 15, 2018 04:00 | 2d 15h | 8,138 | 17K |
| 4 | April 24, 2018 12:30 | April 26, 2018 11:00 | 1d 22h | 6,685 | 11K |
| 5 | November 27, 2018 10:45 | November 28, 2018 01:45 | 15h | 6,567 | 2,219 |
| 6 | October 30, 2018 11:45 | October 30, 2018 12:45 | 1h | 6,377 | 1,595 |
| 7 | April 14, 2018 07:30 | April 16, 2018 01:00 | 1d 17h | 5,822 | 8,839 |
| 8 | October 31, 2018 13:15 | November 1, 2018 02:00 | 12h 45m | 5,822 | 11K |
| 9 | December 14, 2018 03:30 | December 14, 2018 20:15 | 16h 45m | 5,396 | 1,825 |
| 10 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | May 27, 2018 00:45 | 1d 14h | 5,232 | 3,122 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 130 reached 100+ customers, 59 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Fort Bend 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CenterPoint Energy | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.62 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
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 ÷ 694,780 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. Fort Bend County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fort Bend 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/fort-bend-county