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2020 Washington County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washington County, TX went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 111th worst of 254 Texas counties and 895th 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 Washington 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 | May 26, 2020 12:00 | June 4, 2020 12:30 | 9d | 4,035 | 64K |
| 2 | June 30, 2020 07:45 | June 30, 2020 08:45 | 1h | 3,543 | 3,543 |
| 3 | June 30, 2020 19:45 | June 30, 2020 22:15 | 2h 30m | 3,537 | 3,539 |
| 4 | August 1, 2020 04:30 | August 2, 2020 01:00 | 20h 30m | 1,620 | 2,779 |
| 5 | August 17, 2020 16:30 | August 17, 2020 19:45 | 3h 15m | 1,596 | 608 |
| 6 | July 2, 2020 18:45 | July 2, 2020 22:15 | 3h 30m | 1,592 | 2,441 |
| 7 | October 29, 2020 06:45 | October 29, 2020 07:00 | 15m | 1,591 | 398 |
| 8 | August 11, 2020 11:00 | August 11, 2020 16:15 | 5h 15m | 1,292 | 341 |
| 9 | September 4, 2020 18:15 | September 5, 2020 02:30 | 8h 15m | 1,164 | 1,286 |
| 10 | November 20, 2020 12:15 | November 20, 2020 16:00 | 3h 45m | 1,108 | 1,842 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Washington 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 |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 79 min | 0.89 |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Brenham - (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 ÷ 12,824 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county