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2018 Nueces County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Nueces County, TX went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 710K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 116th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1156th 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 Nueces 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 | October 7, 2018 16:15 | October 8, 2018 00:15 | 8h | 13,392 | 13K |
| 2 | February 27, 2018 13:30 | March 1, 2018 10:00 | 1d 20h | 7,075 | 20K |
| 3 | January 1, 2018 06:15 | January 5, 2018 02:15 | 3d 20h | 5,492 | 44K |
| 4 | March 27, 2018 06:45 | March 30, 2018 04:00 | 2d 21h | 5,455 | 27K |
| 5 | August 14, 2018 13:00 | August 15, 2018 03:00 | 14h | 5,414 | 17K |
| 6 | November 8, 2018 15:30 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 1d 20h | 5,397 | 11K |
| 7 | November 12, 2018 13:45 | November 16, 2018 01:00 | 3d 11h | 5,070 | 22K |
| 8 | March 24, 2018 10:15 | March 26, 2018 02:30 | 1d 16h | 4,839 | 25K |
| 9 | May 31, 2018 13:30 | June 1, 2018 04:00 | 14h 30m | 4,402 | 6,677 |
| 10 | June 15, 2018 12:30 | June 18, 2018 05:45 | 2d 17h | 4,270 | 2,770 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 187 reached 100+ customers, 68 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 Nueces 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 |
| City of Robstown - (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 ÷ 162,267 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. Nueces County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nueces 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/nueces-county