County annual report · FIPS 48385
2018 Real County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Real County, TX went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 6,064 customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 106th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1065th 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 Real 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 23:45 | October 10, 2018 20:00 | 2d 20h | 756 | 1,704 |
| 2 | September 22, 2018 20:30 | September 22, 2018 23:15 | 2h 45m | 165 | 454 |
| 3 | February 7, 2018 08:45 | February 7, 2018 15:45 | 7h | 126 | 882 |
| 4 | April 25, 2018 18:15 | April 26, 2018 06:00 | 11h 45m | 100 | 319 |
| 5 | May 4, 2018 12:15 | May 5, 2018 03:00 | 14h 45m | 67 | 223 |
| 6 | October 22, 2018 00:00 | October 22, 2018 00:30 | 30m | 60 | 16 |
| 7 | May 11, 2018 14:00 | May 11, 2018 15:30 | 1h 30m | 57 | 86 |
| 8 | June 28, 2018 17:45 | June 28, 2018 22:15 | 4h 30m | 57 | 99 |
| 9 | February 21, 2018 15:30 | February 21, 2018 17:45 | 2h 15m | 56 | 126 |
| 10 | March 10, 2018 03:30 | March 10, 2018 14:00 | 10h 30m | 56 | 575 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Real 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 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 61 min | 0.77 | 55 min | 0.77 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 2.16 | 4.5 hrs | 1.99 |
| Bandera Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.67 | 36 min | 0.40 |
| Central Texas 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 ÷ 1,239 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. Real County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Real 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/real-county