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2019 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 806K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 187th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1617th 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 Cameron 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 | November 16, 2019 14:00 | November 17, 2019 06:15 | 16h 15m | 15,678 | 22K |
| 2 | October 21, 2019 03:00 | October 24, 2019 02:30 | 2d 23h | 14,944 | 155K |
| 3 | June 24, 2019 12:45 | June 28, 2019 06:00 | 3d 17h | 14,799 | 135K |
| 4 | February 7, 2019 14:00 | February 10, 2019 05:00 | 2d 15h | 10,013 | 29K |
| 5 | October 11, 2019 04:00 | October 13, 2019 04:15 | 2d | 8,212 | 46K |
| 6 | January 22, 2019 13:00 | January 24, 2019 05:45 | 1d 16h | 8,048 | 27K |
| 7 | October 25, 2019 07:45 | October 26, 2019 05:15 | 21h 30m | 6,438 | 28K |
| 8 | April 9, 2019 12:00 | April 11, 2019 05:30 | 1d 17h | 5,935 | 5,614 |
| 9 | September 7, 2019 02:15 | September 7, 2019 03:30 | 1h 15m | 4,945 | 3,708 |
| 10 | April 17, 2019 07:00 | April 18, 2019 08:15 | 1d 1h | 4,506 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 202 reached 100+ customers, 51 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2018 | 3.3 hrs | 1.81 | 2.8 hrs | 1.68 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2018 | 72 min | 0.88 | 9 min | 0.12 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county