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2020 Brooks County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Brooks County, TX went without power for an average of 34.8 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 254 Texas counties and 233rd 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 Brooks 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 | July 25, 2020 19:00 | July 31, 2020 15:00 | 5d 20h | 2,313 | 56K |
| 2 | March 25, 2020 15:30 | March 25, 2020 16:00 | 30m | 1,791 | 895 |
| 3 | November 22, 2020 03:30 | November 22, 2020 10:15 | 6h 45m | 1,449 | 4,633 |
| 4 | April 29, 2020 15:00 | April 29, 2020 17:00 | 2h | 1,439 | 1,083 |
| 5 | May 16, 2020 08:00 | May 18, 2020 06:00 | 1d 22h | 1,231 | 12K |
| 6 | December 9, 2020 22:00 | December 10, 2020 10:30 | 12h 30m | 974 | 535 |
| 7 | June 24, 2020 17:00 | June 25, 2020 02:15 | 9h 15m | 493 | 1,682 |
| 8 | June 1, 2020 14:00 | June 3, 2020 03:45 | 1d 13h | 377 | 1,396 |
| 9 | November 9, 2020 04:45 | November 9, 2020 11:00 | 6h 15m | 377 | 1,921 |
| 10 | February 29, 2020 17:30 | March 1, 2020 03:15 | 9h 45m | 366 | 1,481 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Brooks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2020 | 8.6 hrs | 1.88 | 2.8 hrs | 1.47 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 2.50 | 3.9 hrs | 2.26 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 6.9 hrs | 2.35 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 24.6 hrs | - | 2.5 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 63% of Texas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,092 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. Brooks County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brooks 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/brooks-county