County annual report · FIPS 48177
2018 Gonzales County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Gonzales County, TX went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 104th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1055th 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 Gonzales 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 26, 2018 08:30 | May 26, 2018 15:30 | 7h | 1,956 | 11K |
| 2 | July 12, 2018 04:30 | July 12, 2018 04:45 | 15m | 738 | 185 |
| 3 | November 5, 2018 14:15 | November 5, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 729 | 182 |
| 4 | July 12, 2018 05:45 | July 12, 2018 06:00 | 15m | 726 | 182 |
| 5 | September 25, 2018 20:00 | September 25, 2018 21:00 | 1h | 726 | 726 |
| 6 | September 13, 2018 02:30 | September 13, 2018 03:45 | 1h 15m | 717 | 717 |
| 7 | October 31, 2018 21:15 | November 1, 2018 09:15 | 12h | 596 | 844 |
| 8 | November 30, 2018 08:30 | November 30, 2018 12:30 | 4h | 576 | 1,828 |
| 9 | February 19, 2018 19:00 | February 19, 2018 22:00 | 3h | 575 | 477 |
| 10 | March 18, 2018 23:30 | March 19, 2018 04:30 | 5h | 458 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Gonzales 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 |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 |
| Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 | 80 min | 0.87 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Flatonia - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gonzales - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Waelder - (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 ÷ 6,999 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. Gonzales County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gonzales 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/gonzales-county