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2021 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 28.0 hours, a total of 4.8M customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 106th worst of 252 Texas counties and 319th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 11, 2021 13:45 | February 23, 2021 11:15 | 11d 21h | 53,031 | 4.1M |
| 2 | September 28, 2021 14:15 | September 30, 2021 09:30 | 1d 19h | 19,339 | 135K |
| 3 | October 28, 2021 13:30 | October 31, 2021 19:00 | 3d 5h | 8,912 | 88K |
| 4 | August 12, 2021 13:30 | August 13, 2021 00:15 | 10h 45m | 8,723 | 4,709 |
| 5 | September 30, 2021 12:45 | October 2, 2021 00:45 | 1d 12h | 7,173 | 26K |
| 6 | November 13, 2021 14:15 | November 13, 2021 19:45 | 5h 30m | 7,115 | 8,016 |
| 7 | October 14, 2021 00:45 | October 15, 2021 09:45 | 1d 9h | 6,383 | 16K |
| 8 | May 11, 2021 12:30 | May 13, 2021 06:15 | 1d 17h | 5,952 | 17K |
| 9 | July 11, 2021 16:30 | July 15, 2021 14:45 | 3d 22h | 5,385 | 21K |
| 10 | October 27, 2021 07:15 | October 28, 2021 04:15 | 21h | 4,872 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 185 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Bell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 84 min | 1.13 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2021 | 14.1 hrs | 2.22 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 29.0 hrs | 19.09 | 12.3 hrs | 0.50 |
| City of Bartlett - (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 94% of Texas's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell County, TX annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/texas/bell-county