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2020 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 363K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 217th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2203rd 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 Bell 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 | August 5, 2020 09:45 | August 6, 2020 11:45 | 1d 2h | 15,512 | 32K |
| 2 | April 28, 2020 13:45 | May 1, 2020 06:15 | 2d 16h | 5,893 | 44K |
| 3 | January 20, 2020 11:00 | January 21, 2020 06:00 | 19h | 5,742 | 4,761 |
| 4 | October 25, 2020 16:00 | October 25, 2020 22:15 | 6h 15m | 5,656 | 7,472 |
| 5 | September 2, 2020 04:30 | September 3, 2020 08:00 | 1d 3h | 4,590 | 37K |
| 6 | March 4, 2020 12:45 | March 5, 2020 10:45 | 22h | 3,753 | 9,871 |
| 7 | September 21, 2020 14:30 | September 22, 2020 09:15 | 18h 45m | 3,320 | 6,093 |
| 8 | May 23, 2020 13:45 | May 24, 2020 06:45 | 17h | 2,880 | 3,894 |
| 9 | May 27, 2020 12:45 | May 28, 2020 10:15 | 21h 30m | 2,607 | 2,347 |
| 10 | October 26, 2020 06:15 | October 26, 2020 06:30 | 15m | 2,472 | 618 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 146 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Bell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 58 min | 0.68 | 58 min | 0.68 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2020 | 80 min | 0.74 | 80 min | 0.74 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.44 | 27 min | 0.27 |
| City of Bartlett - (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 ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell 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/bell-county