County annual report · FIPS 48015
2019 Austin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Austin County, TX went without power for an average of 17.5 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 254 Texas counties and 268th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Austin County, 2019
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 22, 2019 05:15 | November 21, 2019 06:15 | 30d 1h | 1,880 | 14K |
| 2 | October 11, 2019 05:15 | October 14, 2019 01:45 | 2d 20h | 1,828 | 60K |
| 3 | October 14, 2019 05:30 | October 16, 2019 17:30 | 2d 12h | 1,821 | 68K |
| 4 | April 18, 2019 06:00 | April 18, 2019 20:00 | 14h | 968 | 2,175 |
| 5 | May 2, 2019 18:00 | May 2, 2019 18:15 | 15m | 687 | 172 |
| 6 | June 11, 2019 16:15 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 26d 10h | 525 | 4,217 |
| 7 | September 1, 2019 00:00 | September 1, 2019 16:30 | 16h 30m | 486 | 1,396 |
| 8 | October 18, 2019 15:30 | October 18, 2019 20:00 | 4h 30m | 413 | 162 |
| 9 | September 19, 2019 16:45 | September 20, 2019 10:15 | 17h 30m | 359 | 858 |
| 10 | May 7, 2019 20:00 | May 7, 2019 22:30 | 2h 30m | 343 | 294 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Austin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.62 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.06 | 78 min | 0.94 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bellville - (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 93% of Texas's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,780 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. Austin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Austin County, TX annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/texas/austin-county