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2019 Hidalgo County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hidalgo County, TX went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 224th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2136th 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 Hidalgo 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 24, 2019 11:45 | June 30, 2019 05:45 | 5d 18h | 26,532 | 433K |
| 2 | May 14, 2019 10:00 | May 16, 2019 04:00 | 1d 18h | 13,474 | 39K |
| 3 | August 24, 2019 11:00 | August 27, 2019 10:00 | 2d 23h | 13,281 | 69K |
| 4 | February 7, 2019 13:45 | February 11, 2019 00:15 | 3d 10h | 9,465 | 45K |
| 5 | October 30, 2019 11:30 | November 1, 2019 10:30 | 1d 23h | 8,914 | 23K |
| 6 | July 26, 2019 08:30 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 1d 9h | 8,827 | 13K |
| 7 | October 25, 2019 03:00 | October 26, 2019 06:15 | 1d 3h | 7,322 | 33K |
| 8 | March 21, 2019 11:15 | March 22, 2019 07:00 | 19h 45m | 6,915 | 4,958 |
| 9 | April 9, 2019 10:00 | April 10, 2019 03:45 | 17h 45m | 6,817 | 12K |
| 10 | April 17, 2019 13:00 | April 19, 2019 08:30 | 1d 19h | 5,747 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 238 reached 100+ customers, 102 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| 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 | - |
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 ÷ 753,680 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county