County annual report · FIPS 48015
2020 Austin County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Austin County, TX went without power for an average of 22.5 hours, a total of 220K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 254 Texas counties and 383rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Austin County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 27, 2020 18:15 | May 28, 2020 20:30 | 1d 2h | 1,953 | 1,531 |
| 2 | August 2, 2020 12:00 | August 3, 2020 03:30 | 15h 30m | 1,075 | 2,325 |
| 3 | December 13, 2020 21:15 | December 14, 2020 21:00 | 23h 45m | 860 | 894 |
| 4 | February 16, 2020 07:00 | February 16, 2020 19:45 | 12h 45m | 811 | 4,755 |
| 5 | July 26, 2020 17:15 | July 27, 2020 01:45 | 8h 30m | 700 | 2,270 |
| 6 | September 27, 2020 19:45 | October 7, 2020 00:30 | 9d 4h | 607 | 2,075 |
| 7 | June 4, 2020 21:45 | June 5, 2020 20:30 | 22h 45m | 537 | 576 |
| 8 | May 28, 2020 22:00 | May 29, 2020 03:00 | 5h | 532 | 1,198 |
| 9 | November 12, 2020 15:00 | November 16, 2020 18:00 | 4d 3h | 492 | 936 |
| 10 | September 4, 2020 19:15 | September 5, 2020 01:30 | 6h 15m | 400 | 190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 36 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Austin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 79 min | 0.89 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.78 | 2.3 hrs | 1.32 |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 | 1.7 hrs | 1.10 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bellville - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 63% of Texas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,780 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. Austin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Austin County, TX annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/texas/austin-county