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2019 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 581K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 176th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1510th 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 Bell 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 | June 23, 2019 14:15 | June 25, 2019 12:15 | 1d 22h | 8,689 | 52K |
| 2 | December 29, 2019 15:30 | December 30, 2019 07:00 | 15h 30m | 6,137 | 14K |
| 3 | October 21, 2019 07:30 | October 23, 2019 09:45 | 2d 2h | 5,865 | 23K |
| 4 | December 6, 2019 20:00 | December 7, 2019 03:45 | 7h 45m | 5,239 | 2,859 |
| 5 | May 8, 2019 10:30 | May 10, 2019 10:15 | 1d 23h | 5,128 | 12K |
| 6 | April 12, 2019 13:45 | April 15, 2019 11:45 | 2d 22h | 4,989 | 71K |
| 7 | June 19, 2019 13:15 | June 22, 2019 10:00 | 2d 20h | 4,929 | 28K |
| 8 | June 16, 2019 14:15 | June 19, 2019 05:00 | 2d 14h | 4,921 | 42K |
| 9 | April 17, 2019 15:00 | April 19, 2019 12:15 | 1d 21h | 4,551 | 16K |
| 10 | July 8, 2019 11:00 | July 18, 2019 03:15 | 9d 16h | 4,436 | 31K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 133 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Bell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 61 min | 0.77 | 55 min | 0.77 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 1.03 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.01 | 50 min | 0.62 |
| City of Bartlett - (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 ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell 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/bell-county