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2018 Orange County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Orange County, TX went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 194th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1933rd 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 Orange 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 | April 28, 2018 13:45 | April 28, 2018 16:30 | 2h 45m | 2,418 | 1,330 |
| 2 | April 14, 2018 09:15 | April 15, 2018 03:15 | 18h | 1,905 | 12K |
| 3 | January 22, 2018 08:00 | January 23, 2018 02:00 | 18h | 1,188 | 4,049 |
| 4 | March 29, 2018 08:45 | March 29, 2018 19:30 | 10h 45m | 1,120 | 2,189 |
| 5 | January 1, 2018 11:00 | January 2, 2018 00:30 | 13h 30m | 1,076 | 3,965 |
| 6 | April 24, 2018 13:00 | April 24, 2018 13:15 | 15m | 840 | 210 |
| 7 | January 15, 2018 15:15 | January 15, 2018 17:00 | 1h 45m | 713 | 230 |
| 8 | February 5, 2018 16:00 | February 5, 2018 17:00 | 1h | 581 | 146 |
| 9 | January 12, 2018 01:15 | January 12, 2018 11:00 | 9h 45m | 466 | 1,019 |
| 10 | April 4, 2018 16:30 | April 4, 2018 18:30 | 2h | 453 | 438 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 22 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 1.77 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 13.5 hrs | 3.85 | 13.5 hrs | 3.85 |
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 ÷ 19,786 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county