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2018 Val Verde County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Val Verde County, TX went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (Texas average 2.4 hours). That ranks 107th worst of 253 Texas counties and 1079th 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 Val Verde 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 | March 20, 2018 14:00 | March 21, 2018 00:15 | 10h 15m | 18,455 | 28K |
| 2 | April 12, 2018 11:30 | April 12, 2018 12:45 | 1h 15m | 4,567 | 1,158 |
| 3 | June 1, 2018 13:45 | June 1, 2018 16:45 | 3h | 2,565 | 1,984 |
| 4 | August 15, 2018 13:45 | August 15, 2018 23:30 | 9h 45m | 2,015 | 1,154 |
| 5 | December 4, 2018 15:00 | December 5, 2018 00:45 | 9h 45m | 1,953 | 546 |
| 6 | March 23, 2018 15:30 | March 23, 2018 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,784 | 2,302 |
| 7 | September 11, 2018 14:15 | September 12, 2018 01:00 | 10h 45m | 1,245 | 2,587 |
| 8 | May 4, 2018 02:30 | May 4, 2018 04:00 | 1h 30m | 1,207 | 316 |
| 9 | October 15, 2018 12:00 | October 15, 2018 23:45 | 11h 45m | 1,181 | 3,866 |
| 10 | July 1, 2018 03:45 | July 1, 2018 06:15 | 2h 30m | 1,161 | 643 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Val Verde 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 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 6.0 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Southwest 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 ÷ 18,757 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. Val Verde County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Val Verde 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/val-verde-county