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2019 Matagorda County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Matagorda County, TX went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 156K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 254 Texas counties and 601st 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 Matagorda 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 | April 7, 2019 15:45 | April 8, 2019 02:30 | 10h 45m | 4,965 | 12K |
| 2 | June 8, 2019 19:45 | June 9, 2019 03:30 | 7h 45m | 2,389 | 3,478 |
| 3 | August 28, 2019 17:15 | August 29, 2019 03:00 | 9h 45m | 2,318 | 1,316 |
| 4 | January 19, 2019 09:30 | January 20, 2019 04:15 | 18h 45m | 2,242 | 11K |
| 5 | May 4, 2019 05:30 | May 5, 2019 02:45 | 21h 15m | 2,146 | 13K |
| 6 | July 22, 2019 17:30 | July 23, 2019 00:15 | 6h 45m | 2,046 | 1,935 |
| 7 | January 17, 2019 12:45 | January 17, 2019 15:30 | 2h 45m | 1,559 | 2,619 |
| 8 | November 11, 2019 14:30 | November 13, 2019 00:15 | 1d 9h | 1,489 | 7,720 |
| 9 | August 31, 2019 20:15 | September 1, 2019 07:45 | 11h 30m | 1,393 | 6,346 |
| 10 | September 2, 2019 16:15 | September 2, 2019 19:45 | 3h 30m | 1,389 | 698 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 69 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Matagorda 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.62 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,119 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. Matagorda County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Matagorda 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/matagorda-county