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2019 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 172nd worst of 254 Texas counties and 1488th 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 Wharton 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 | February 3, 2019 14:00 | February 3, 2019 17:15 | 3h 15m | 5,405 | 10K |
| 2 | March 31, 2019 04:15 | March 31, 2019 16:00 | 11h 45m | 1,658 | 2,189 |
| 3 | August 15, 2019 20:30 | August 16, 2019 03:30 | 7h | 1,647 | 1,547 |
| 4 | April 18, 2019 06:30 | April 19, 2019 04:15 | 21h 45m | 968 | 1,199 |
| 5 | May 10, 2019 04:15 | May 11, 2019 01:30 | 21h 15m | 881 | 1,692 |
| 6 | June 5, 2019 08:15 | June 8, 2019 09:15 | 3d 1h | 845 | 11K |
| 7 | January 3, 2019 20:00 | January 4, 2019 03:00 | 7h | 760 | 965 |
| 8 | September 18, 2019 22:30 | September 19, 2019 10:00 | 11h 30m | 719 | 1,066 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 08:45 | November 27, 2019 12:00 | 3h 15m | 667 | 2,168 |
| 10 | May 9, 2019 20:45 | May 10, 2019 00:30 | 3h 45m | 612 | 301 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 55 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Wharton 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 |
| 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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county