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2020 Real County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Real County, TX went without power for an average of 18.4 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 254 Texas counties and 467th 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 Real 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 | January 16, 2020 17:45 | January 16, 2020 21:45 | 4h | 3,655 | 3,698 |
| 2 | February 10, 2020 08:30 | February 10, 2020 12:30 | 4h | 2,511 | 10K |
| 3 | December 29, 2020 00:30 | December 29, 2020 02:30 | 2h | 904 | 1,572 |
| 4 | August 18, 2020 16:30 | August 18, 2020 20:15 | 3h 45m | 745 | 193 |
| 5 | August 20, 2020 13:15 | August 20, 2020 13:45 | 30m | 743 | 372 |
| 6 | August 20, 2020 16:15 | August 20, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 743 | 186 |
| 7 | August 1, 2020 00:00 | August 1, 2020 20:15 | 20h 15m | 292 | 366 |
| 8 | February 11, 2020 15:45 | February 11, 2020 16:15 | 30m | 267 | 133 |
| 9 | May 24, 2020 01:00 | May 25, 2020 00:30 | 23h 30m | 150 | 611 |
| 10 | August 28, 2020 07:00 | August 28, 2020 18:15 | 11h 15m | 147 | 425 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Real 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 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 58 min | 0.68 | 58 min | 0.68 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 5.1 hrs | 2.50 | 3.9 hrs | 2.26 |
| Central Texas Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.32 | 1.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| Bandera Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 0.77 | 40 min | 0.41 |
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 ÷ 1,239 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. Real County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Real 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/real-county