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2020 Gonzales County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gonzales County, TX went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 149th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1224th 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 Gonzales 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 16, 2020 05:30 | May 16, 2020 12:30 | 7h | 3,243 | 2,726 |
| 2 | April 4, 2020 07:30 | April 4, 2020 08:00 | 30m | 2,068 | 867 |
| 3 | May 16, 2020 19:15 | May 17, 2020 08:30 | 13h 15m | 1,569 | 1,375 |
| 4 | August 18, 2020 23:00 | August 19, 2020 21:30 | 22h 30m | 1,218 | 2,389 |
| 5 | August 4, 2020 01:00 | August 4, 2020 20:00 | 19h | 888 | 598 |
| 6 | May 28, 2020 01:30 | May 28, 2020 18:00 | 16h 30m | 832 | 4,966 |
| 7 | January 28, 2020 16:45 | January 28, 2020 17:30 | 45m | 725 | 363 |
| 8 | May 1, 2020 16:45 | May 1, 2020 17:45 | 1h | 725 | 182 |
| 9 | September 10, 2020 05:30 | September 10, 2020 22:30 | 17h | 575 | 1,439 |
| 10 | July 2, 2020 17:30 | July 2, 2020 21:30 | 4h | 573 | 518 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Gonzales 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 |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 79 min | 0.89 |
| Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 61 min | 1.02 | 61 min | 1.02 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Flatonia - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gonzales - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Waelder - (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 ÷ 6,999 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. Gonzales County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gonzales 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/gonzales-county