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2020 Orange County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Orange County, TX went without power for an average of 339.4 hours, a total of 6.7M customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 254 Texas counties and 11th 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 Orange 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 | August 26, 2020 16:00 | September 10, 2020 02:30 | 14d 10h | 38,709 | 5.4M |
| 2 | October 9, 2020 11:30 | October 14, 2020 02:45 | 4d 15h | 29,220 | 1.0M |
| 3 | August 5, 2020 18:45 | August 6, 2020 16:15 | 21h 30m | 19,518 | 13K |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 00:30 | February 7, 2020 21:30 | 21h | 4,966 | 31K |
| 5 | October 29, 2020 12:30 | October 30, 2020 03:30 | 15h | 4,105 | 33K |
| 6 | December 19, 2020 19:45 | December 21, 2020 02:45 | 1d 7h | 3,061 | 23K |
| 7 | June 22, 2020 12:00 | June 23, 2020 21:15 | 1d 9h | 2,411 | 4,084 |
| 8 | January 1, 2020 22:00 | January 2, 2020 01:30 | 3h 30m | 2,397 | 6,438 |
| 9 | February 24, 2020 15:30 | February 24, 2020 20:30 | 5h | 1,834 | 2,058 |
| 10 | May 14, 2020 11:30 | May 15, 2020 09:30 | 22h | 1,832 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 116 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2020 | 42.3 hrs | 3.27 | 4.6 hrs | 1.74 |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 128.3 hrs | 6.06 | 14.2 hrs | 3.31 |
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 ÷ 19,786 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county