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2020 Nueces County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nueces County, TX went without power for an average of 11.2 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 254 Texas counties and 716th 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 Nueces 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 23, 2020 10:30 | July 31, 2020 05:15 | 7d 18h | 41,722 | 1.0M |
| 2 | March 31, 2020 12:30 | April 2, 2020 09:45 | 1d 21h | 15,916 | 9,088 |
| 3 | June 24, 2020 12:30 | June 27, 2020 20:15 | 3d 7h | 13,536 | 44K |
| 4 | May 16, 2020 06:30 | May 19, 2020 12:00 | 3d 5h | 9,965 | 65K |
| 5 | May 24, 2020 19:45 | May 27, 2020 05:00 | 2d 9h | 9,879 | 53K |
| 6 | July 16, 2020 13:30 | July 17, 2020 01:45 | 12h 15m | 8,976 | 3,264 |
| 7 | September 14, 2020 08:00 | September 15, 2020 01:45 | 17h 45m | 8,310 | 42K |
| 8 | September 13, 2020 05:45 | September 13, 2020 15:15 | 9h 30m | 8,284 | 4,573 |
| 9 | April 29, 2020 13:00 | May 1, 2020 03:30 | 1d 14h | 7,445 | 26K |
| 10 | September 29, 2020 08:00 | September 30, 2020 09:00 | 1d 1h | 6,392 | 3,441 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 198 reached 100+ customers, 70 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 Nueces 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 |
| City of Robstown - (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 ÷ 162,267 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. Nueces County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nueces 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/nueces-county