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2020 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 207th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2012th 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 Wharton 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 | December 13, 2020 21:15 | December 14, 2020 08:15 | 11h | 1,578 | 3,517 |
| 2 | December 24, 2020 10:00 | December 25, 2020 05:45 | 19h 45m | 1,498 | 3,549 |
| 3 | February 17, 2020 16:00 | February 18, 2020 01:00 | 9h | 1,469 | 1,383 |
| 4 | August 21, 2020 13:30 | August 22, 2020 03:30 | 14h | 1,401 | 1,069 |
| 5 | December 2, 2020 10:00 | December 3, 2020 05:00 | 19h | 1,351 | 3,333 |
| 6 | July 19, 2020 17:45 | July 20, 2020 00:30 | 6h 45m | 1,021 | 3,036 |
| 7 | September 4, 2020 01:45 | September 4, 2020 05:00 | 3h 15m | 969 | 1,455 |
| 8 | October 15, 2020 00:00 | October 15, 2020 02:30 | 2h 30m | 744 | 753 |
| 9 | October 15, 2020 12:45 | October 15, 2020 22:30 | 9h 45m | 712 | 212 |
| 10 | July 29, 2020 15:45 | July 29, 2020 23:45 | 8h | 624 | 217 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Wharton 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.78 | 2.3 hrs | 1.32 |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County 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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county