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2020 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 145th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1199th 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 Cameron 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 16, 2020 12:45 | August 7, 2020 02:00 | 21d 13h | 28,057 | 1.2M |
| 2 | February 24, 2020 13:30 | February 25, 2020 04:00 | 14h 30m | 11,497 | 20K |
| 3 | March 3, 2020 13:15 | March 4, 2020 01:00 | 11h 45m | 11,444 | 6,306 |
| 4 | May 9, 2020 04:45 | May 10, 2020 23:45 | 1d 19h | 7,092 | 34K |
| 5 | September 5, 2020 06:45 | September 7, 2020 02:00 | 1d 19h | 5,250 | 26K |
| 6 | March 20, 2020 14:15 | March 22, 2020 02:45 | 1d 12h | 4,181 | 17K |
| 7 | December 7, 2020 05:30 | December 7, 2020 11:45 | 6h 15m | 4,112 | 5,158 |
| 8 | November 28, 2020 14:45 | November 30, 2020 06:00 | 1d 15h | 3,759 | 16K |
| 9 | May 16, 2020 10:30 | May 17, 2020 05:30 | 19h | 3,604 | 16K |
| 10 | September 7, 2020 09:15 | September 7, 2020 15:00 | 5h 45m | 3,601 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 192 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cameron 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 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 24.6 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2020 | 63 min | 1.21 | 25 min | 0.71 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county