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2019 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 118th worst of 254 Texas counties and 834th 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 Jim Wells 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 | December 6, 2019 14:45 | December 7, 2019 00:15 | 9h 30m | 10,187 | 5,743 |
| 2 | November 1, 2019 01:45 | November 1, 2019 07:00 | 5h 15m | 4,884 | 4,296 |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 16:15 | November 1, 2019 00:15 | 8h | 4,824 | 6,347 |
| 4 | June 6, 2019 23:15 | June 9, 2019 11:15 | 2d 12h | 4,430 | 7,587 |
| 5 | December 20, 2019 18:00 | December 20, 2019 18:15 | 15m | 1,954 | 489 |
| 6 | April 7, 2019 11:45 | April 8, 2019 06:30 | 18h 45m | 1,722 | 10K |
| 7 | November 7, 2019 23:30 | November 8, 2019 22:00 | 22h 30m | 1,433 | 6,524 |
| 8 | December 9, 2019 12:15 | December 10, 2019 01:30 | 13h 15m | 1,427 | 500 |
| 9 | April 18, 2019 08:15 | April 19, 2019 00:00 | 15h 45m | 1,337 | 2,669 |
| 10 | November 23, 2019 00:15 | November 23, 2019 04:45 | 4h 30m | 1,091 | 1,251 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 84 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.88 | 2.6 hrs | 2.05 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 4.4 hrs | 2.06 | 2.6 hrs | 1.25 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county