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2018 Refugio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Refugio County, TX went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 253 Texas counties and 511th 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 Refugio 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 14, 2018 07:15 | April 15, 2018 02:15 | 19h | 1,322 | 4,256 |
| 2 | March 29, 2018 06:15 | March 30, 2018 00:00 | 17h 45m | 969 | 5,659 |
| 3 | October 25, 2018 11:15 | October 25, 2018 18:30 | 7h 15m | 823 | 1,160 |
| 4 | December 9, 2018 14:15 | December 9, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 816 | 204 |
| 5 | July 6, 2018 18:00 | July 7, 2018 23:00 | 1d 5h | 772 | 1,265 |
| 6 | September 21, 2018 07:00 | September 21, 2018 09:15 | 2h 15m | 759 | 1,708 |
| 7 | June 13, 2018 14:30 | June 13, 2018 17:30 | 3h | 756 | 1,891 |
| 8 | December 6, 2018 18:15 | December 7, 2018 00:30 | 6h 15m | 727 | 206 |
| 9 | September 15, 2018 07:15 | September 15, 2018 09:30 | 2h 15m | 718 | 1,301 |
| 10 | September 8, 2018 19:45 | September 9, 2018 00:15 | 4h 30m | 378 | 1,699 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 30 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Refugio 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 |
| Victoria Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 3.6 hrs | 1.51 | 3.1 hrs | 1.34 |
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 ÷ 3,401 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. Refugio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Refugio 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/refugio-county