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2020 Willacy County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Willacy County, TX went without power for an average of 57.7 hours, a total of 672K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 254 Texas counties and 138th 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 Willacy 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 | July 25, 2020 17:15 | August 5, 2020 01:45 | 10d 8h | 7,991 | 623K |
| 2 | June 3, 2020 06:15 | June 3, 2020 07:45 | 1h 30m | 2,999 | 3,749 |
| 3 | August 5, 2020 20:00 | August 7, 2020 01:00 | 1d 5h | 1,720 | 3,155 |
| 4 | December 19, 2020 01:00 | December 19, 2020 05:15 | 4h 15m | 1,427 | 3,573 |
| 5 | May 25, 2020 05:45 | May 25, 2020 19:45 | 14h | 1,215 | 4,999 |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 04:15 | August 25, 2020 07:30 | 3h 15m | 999 | 1,771 |
| 7 | September 30, 2020 21:15 | October 1, 2020 01:45 | 4h 30m | 763 | 286 |
| 8 | April 4, 2020 13:15 | April 5, 2020 05:30 | 16h 15m | 755 | 1,447 |
| 9 | May 9, 2020 11:30 | May 9, 2020 21:30 | 10h | 677 | 1,398 |
| 10 | March 7, 2020 09:45 | March 7, 2020 17:15 | 7h 30m | 484 | 2,591 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Willacy 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 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 24.6 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 11,642 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. Willacy County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Willacy 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/willacy-county