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2020 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 139th worst of 254 Texas counties and 1141st 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 Jim Wells 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 | March 2, 2020 15:45 | March 2, 2020 16:00 | 15m | 2,158 | 540 |
| 2 | January 9, 2020 16:45 | January 10, 2020 02:15 | 9h 30m | 2,085 | 2,674 |
| 3 | September 9, 2020 18:15 | September 10, 2020 05:15 | 11h | 1,993 | 765 |
| 4 | August 19, 2020 13:30 | August 19, 2020 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1,963 | 988 |
| 5 | May 16, 2020 05:00 | May 18, 2020 04:45 | 1d 23h | 1,847 | 16K |
| 6 | June 26, 2020 09:30 | June 26, 2020 23:45 | 14h 15m | 1,719 | 809 |
| 7 | July 24, 2020 20:00 | July 30, 2020 01:15 | 5d 5h | 1,510 | 23K |
| 8 | April 4, 2020 03:30 | April 4, 2020 21:00 | 17h 30m | 1,356 | 1,501 |
| 9 | September 7, 2020 19:15 | September 8, 2020 02:45 | 7h 30m | 1,307 | 2,098 |
| 10 | June 16, 2020 13:15 | June 17, 2020 19:00 | 1d 5h | 1,281 | 446 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 67 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 5.0 hrs | 2.14 | 4.1 hrs | 1.95 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 6.9 hrs | 2.35 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county