County annual report · FIPS 48225
2018 Houston County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Houston County, TX went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 253 Texas counties and 882nd 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 Houston 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 | August 13, 2018 23:00 | August 14, 2018 22:45 | 23h 45m | 5,310 | 19K |
| 2 | January 16, 2018 03:00 | January 16, 2018 16:45 | 13h 45m | 5,132 | 16K |
| 3 | August 28, 2018 19:00 | August 29, 2018 03:30 | 8h 30m | 1,990 | 2,177 |
| 4 | August 11, 2018 02:30 | August 11, 2018 06:30 | 4h | 1,487 | 2,232 |
| 5 | October 24, 2018 21:00 | October 25, 2018 01:30 | 4h 30m | 847 | 2,543 |
| 6 | November 21, 2018 23:00 | November 22, 2018 00:15 | 1h 15m | 762 | 838 |
| 7 | March 28, 2018 04:15 | March 28, 2018 11:00 | 6h 45m | 727 | 4,002 |
| 8 | October 10, 2018 13:00 | October 10, 2018 18:30 | 5h 30m | 722 | 380 |
| 9 | March 28, 2018 13:15 | March 28, 2018 15:45 | 2h 30m | 710 | 1,065 |
| 10 | May 23, 2018 20:45 | May 23, 2018 22:15 | 1h 30m | 702 | 212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 29 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Houston 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 |
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 1.77 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Houston County Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 11,682 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county