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2018 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 9.2 hours, a total of 163K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 253 Texas counties and 607th 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 Jim Wells 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 | November 9, 2018 16:00 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 19h 45m | 7,954 | 46K |
| 2 | March 29, 2018 02:00 | March 30, 2018 07:30 | 1d 5h | 6,857 | 8,558 |
| 3 | November 13, 2018 21:00 | November 14, 2018 08:00 | 11h | 3,922 | 14K |
| 4 | April 13, 2018 20:45 | April 14, 2018 01:00 | 4h 15m | 2,979 | 6,949 |
| 5 | November 7, 2018 19:00 | November 8, 2018 01:45 | 6h 45m | 2,970 | 4,376 |
| 6 | November 5, 2018 16:15 | November 6, 2018 03:30 | 11h 15m | 2,952 | 2,344 |
| 7 | September 6, 2018 13:00 | September 7, 2018 03:30 | 14h 30m | 1,636 | 1,852 |
| 8 | January 16, 2018 20:45 | January 17, 2018 08:00 | 11h 15m | 1,333 | 759 |
| 9 | August 1, 2018 18:15 | August 1, 2018 22:45 | 4h 30m | 1,324 | 734 |
| 10 | February 21, 2018 03:15 | February 22, 2018 02:30 | 23h 15m | 1,295 | 3,968 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 82 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.88 | 2.6 hrs | 2.05 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 4.4 hrs | 2.06 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county