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2019 Willacy County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Willacy County, TX went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 111th worst of 254 Texas counties and 761st 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 Willacy 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 23:00 | June 28, 2019 02:30 | 3d 3h | 3,469 | 40K |
| 2 | October 10, 2019 13:45 | October 10, 2019 17:30 | 3h 45m | 2,050 | 531 |
| 3 | October 11, 2019 10:00 | October 11, 2019 12:15 | 2h 15m | 1,279 | 2,549 |
| 4 | July 20, 2019 05:30 | July 20, 2019 08:30 | 3h | 1,106 | 2,529 |
| 5 | June 10, 2019 18:45 | June 11, 2019 04:45 | 10h | 1,093 | 1,768 |
| 6 | May 10, 2019 09:00 | May 10, 2019 22:45 | 13h 45m | 1,042 | 3,141 |
| 7 | January 22, 2019 15:15 | January 23, 2019 07:15 | 16h | 1,023 | 1,028 |
| 8 | January 23, 2019 09:45 | January 24, 2019 00:45 | 15h | 936 | 2,321 |
| 9 | August 25, 2019 23:00 | August 27, 2019 09:45 | 1d 10h | 732 | 2,573 |
| 10 | December 28, 2019 19:45 | December 29, 2019 05:00 | 9h 15m | 716 | 6,623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Willacy 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,642 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. Willacy County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Willacy 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/willacy-county