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2019 Starr County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Starr County, TX went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 180th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1557th 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 Starr 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 17, 2019 09:00 | April 17, 2019 19:45 | 10h 45m | 7,865 | 5,832 |
| 2 | August 15, 2019 16:15 | August 15, 2019 17:45 | 1h 30m | 7,862 | 7,083 |
| 3 | March 17, 2019 18:30 | March 18, 2019 08:15 | 13h 45m | 2,475 | 10K |
| 4 | May 10, 2019 07:15 | May 10, 2019 21:45 | 14h 30m | 2,112 | 3,959 |
| 5 | August 24, 2019 22:30 | August 25, 2019 23:30 | 1d 1h | 1,996 | 6,967 |
| 6 | January 17, 2019 14:30 | January 18, 2019 00:30 | 10h | 1,945 | 1,291 |
| 7 | April 7, 2019 12:45 | April 8, 2019 01:30 | 12h 45m | 1,301 | 3,642 |
| 8 | March 27, 2019 09:45 | March 27, 2019 12:45 | 3h | 1,039 | 2,864 |
| 9 | December 5, 2019 16:00 | December 6, 2019 03:00 | 11h | 1,030 | 1,323 |
| 10 | June 7, 2019 21:30 | June 8, 2019 04:45 | 7h 15m | 963 | 955 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 59 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Starr 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 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 2.16 | 4.5 hrs | 1.99 |
| 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 ÷ 31,014 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. Starr County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starr 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/starr-county