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2018 Lavaca County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lavaca County, TX went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 253 Texas counties and 416th 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 Lavaca 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 | September 28, 2018 21:30 | September 29, 2018 06:30 | 9h | 1,865 | 3,363 |
| 2 | March 28, 2018 19:30 | March 28, 2018 22:45 | 3h 15m | 1,782 | 1,817 |
| 3 | May 20, 2018 11:00 | May 20, 2018 18:45 | 7h 45m | 1,183 | 3,637 |
| 4 | September 4, 2018 11:30 | September 4, 2018 12:45 | 1h 15m | 1,124 | 1,345 |
| 5 | February 20, 2018 15:30 | February 20, 2018 21:00 | 5h 30m | 680 | 1,193 |
| 6 | August 4, 2018 20:45 | August 5, 2018 00:30 | 3h 45m | 503 | 1,233 |
| 7 | February 18, 2018 21:15 | February 19, 2018 00:00 | 2h 45m | 418 | 305 |
| 8 | November 21, 2018 02:45 | November 21, 2018 04:45 | 2h | 409 | 104 |
| 9 | March 14, 2018 13:45 | March 14, 2018 17:45 | 4h | 363 | 250 |
| 10 | June 16, 2018 22:00 | June 23, 2018 17:30 | 6d 19h | 285 | 578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 24 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 Lavaca 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 | 80 min | 0.87 |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.06 | 78 min | 0.94 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Schulenburg - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Yoakum - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hallettsville - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Moulton - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shiner - (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 ÷ 2,165 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. Lavaca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lavaca 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/lavaca-county