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2020 Val Verde County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Val Verde County, TX went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 116th worst of 254 Texas counties and 935th 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 Val Verde 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 | April 28, 2020 01:15 | April 29, 2020 23:45 | 1d 22h | 10,673 | 74K |
| 2 | September 3, 2020 23:45 | September 4, 2020 05:30 | 5h 45m | 3,159 | 3,133 |
| 3 | May 19, 2020 19:45 | May 20, 2020 00:30 | 4h 45m | 2,917 | 4,480 |
| 4 | November 26, 2020 00:00 | November 26, 2020 01:00 | 1h | 2,294 | 591 |
| 5 | October 18, 2020 17:30 | October 18, 2020 18:45 | 1h 15m | 2,101 | 1,601 |
| 6 | January 20, 2020 16:00 | January 20, 2020 21:15 | 5h 15m | 1,961 | 596 |
| 7 | July 26, 2020 16:30 | July 27, 2020 02:15 | 9h 45m | 1,699 | 5,280 |
| 8 | July 26, 2020 06:30 | July 26, 2020 07:30 | 1h | 1,528 | 1,528 |
| 9 | February 26, 2020 14:30 | February 27, 2020 00:45 | 10h 15m | 1,452 | 5,458 |
| 10 | July 20, 2020 14:45 | July 21, 2020 03:15 | 12h 30m | 1,405 | 750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 55 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Val Verde 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 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 9.8 hrs | - | 8.2 hrs | - |
| Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,757 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. Val Verde County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Val Verde 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/val-verde-county