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2020 Fort Bend County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fort Bend County, TX went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 571K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 248th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2731st 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 Fort Bend 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 | June 22, 2020 12:15 | June 27, 2020 05:15 | 4d 17h | 20,306 | 37K |
| 2 | April 29, 2020 10:15 | April 30, 2020 06:00 | 19h 45m | 17,756 | 56K |
| 3 | December 13, 2020 13:15 | December 15, 2020 06:45 | 1d 17h | 12,078 | 26K |
| 4 | May 28, 2020 02:15 | May 29, 2020 08:30 | 1d 6h | 11,809 | 41K |
| 5 | May 15, 2020 12:00 | May 17, 2020 05:00 | 1d 17h | 11,330 | 48K |
| 6 | October 23, 2020 10:30 | October 24, 2020 14:30 | 1d 4h | 7,245 | 11K |
| 7 | August 4, 2020 09:30 | August 6, 2020 09:00 | 1d 23h | 5,963 | 14K |
| 8 | July 18, 2020 11:30 | July 18, 2020 19:15 | 7h 45m | 5,659 | 1,774 |
| 9 | September 12, 2020 11:45 | September 15, 2020 08:00 | 2d 20h | 4,585 | 4,803 |
| 10 | August 25, 2020 07:00 | August 26, 2020 08:15 | 1d 1h | 4,543 | 7,370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 159 reached 100+ customers, 54 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Fort Bend 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CenterPoint Energy | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.78 | 2.3 hrs | 1.32 |
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 ÷ 694,780 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. Fort Bend County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fort Bend 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/fort-bend-county