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2021 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 3.6M customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 172nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 609th 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 Cameron 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 12, 2021 09:45 | February 20, 2021 23:45 | 8d 14h | 43,776 | 3.0M |
| 2 | December 22, 2021 03:00 | December 22, 2021 05:15 | 2h 15m | 17,554 | 9,442 |
| 3 | May 12, 2021 01:00 | May 15, 2021 02:15 | 3d 1h | 12,754 | 68K |
| 4 | May 15, 2021 13:15 | May 21, 2021 04:45 | 5d 15h | 6,272 | 41K |
| 5 | October 21, 2021 08:00 | October 24, 2021 03:15 | 2d 19h | 5,789 | 33K |
| 6 | February 8, 2021 09:00 | February 8, 2021 10:00 | 1h | 5,448 | 4,748 |
| 7 | September 12, 2021 17:30 | September 14, 2021 02:45 | 1d 9h | 4,714 | 17K |
| 8 | December 9, 2021 06:00 | December 9, 2021 07:00 | 1h | 4,191 | 2,365 |
| 9 | December 9, 2021 13:30 | December 10, 2021 01:15 | 11h 45m | 3,794 | 5,666 |
| 10 | November 7, 2021 23:00 | November 9, 2021 12:30 | 1d 13h | 3,364 | 7,509 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 192 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2021 | 31.7 hrs | 3.36 | 3.1 hrs | 1.61 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 12.0 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 0.90 | 30 min | 0.49 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county