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2020 Refugio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Refugio County, TX went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 254 Texas counties and 726th 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 Refugio 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 12, 2020 17:45 | January 12, 2020 20:30 | 2h 45m | 1,038 | 2,854 |
| 2 | January 16, 2020 14:45 | January 16, 2020 17:30 | 2h 45m | 1,030 | 2,832 |
| 3 | May 26, 2020 07:00 | May 26, 2020 19:15 | 12h 15m | 893 | 3,140 |
| 4 | July 6, 2020 17:00 | July 6, 2020 19:30 | 2h 30m | 772 | 1,919 |
| 5 | February 10, 2020 05:45 | February 10, 2020 06:00 | 15m | 682 | 171 |
| 6 | November 25, 2020 20:45 | November 25, 2020 23:15 | 2h 30m | 547 | 1,365 |
| 7 | April 29, 2020 12:45 | April 30, 2020 01:30 | 12h 45m | 498 | 1,467 |
| 8 | July 14, 2020 15:15 | July 14, 2020 17:30 | 2h 15m | 453 | 1,019 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 05:30 | May 28, 2020 23:15 | 17h 45m | 451 | 731 |
| 10 | January 23, 2020 18:00 | January 23, 2020 21:15 | 3h 15m | 441 | 775 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 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 Refugio 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 |
| Victoria Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 1.27 | 2.9 hrs | 1.27 |
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 ÷ 3,401 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. Refugio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Refugio 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/refugio-county