County annual report · FIPS 48505
2019 Zapata County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Zapata County, TX went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Texas average 4.9 hours). That ranks 116th worst of 254 Texas counties and 812th 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 Zapata 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 | August 24, 2019 21:15 | August 26, 2019 17:45 | 1d 20h | 2,837 | 20K |
| 2 | June 16, 2019 00:30 | June 16, 2019 03:00 | 2h 30m | 2,803 | 6,686 |
| 3 | July 13, 2019 20:00 | July 14, 2019 01:45 | 5h 45m | 1,149 | 3,768 |
| 4 | April 7, 2019 11:45 | April 7, 2019 20:45 | 9h | 1,139 | 3,806 |
| 5 | July 23, 2019 18:30 | July 26, 2019 00:15 | 2d 5h | 997 | 1,993 |
| 6 | September 3, 2019 01:30 | September 3, 2019 05:00 | 3h 30m | 882 | 1,077 |
| 7 | October 29, 2019 16:00 | October 29, 2019 16:45 | 45m | 865 | 434 |
| 8 | July 12, 2019 16:30 | July 13, 2019 15:00 | 22h 30m | 846 | 1,203 |
| 9 | June 26, 2019 13:15 | June 26, 2019 17:00 | 3h 45m | 841 | 1,288 |
| 10 | March 21, 2019 16:00 | March 21, 2019 19:00 | 3h | 835 | 2,503 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 21 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Zapata 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 |
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 ÷ 8,025 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. Zapata County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Zapata 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/zapata-county