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2021 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 39.4 hours, a total of 694K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 252 Texas counties and 221st 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 Jim Wells 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 | May 23, 2021 13:15 | May 27, 2021 01:00 | 3d 11h | 15,628 | 5,949 |
| 2 | February 14, 2021 21:15 | February 21, 2021 01:00 | 6d 3h | 12,249 | 540K |
| 3 | May 18, 2021 06:45 | May 22, 2021 06:45 | 4d | 3,613 | 45K |
| 4 | November 2, 2021 14:00 | November 2, 2021 23:15 | 9h 15m | 1,790 | 1,207 |
| 5 | May 11, 2021 06:45 | May 13, 2021 17:15 | 2d 10h | 1,725 | 8,112 |
| 6 | August 2, 2021 11:30 | August 4, 2021 21:30 | 2d 10h | 1,678 | 3,958 |
| 7 | November 17, 2021 17:30 | November 17, 2021 23:30 | 6h | 1,472 | 441 |
| 8 | September 17, 2021 00:15 | September 17, 2021 06:15 | 6h | 1,446 | 3,865 |
| 9 | May 16, 2021 00:30 | May 17, 2021 03:00 | 1d 2h | 1,026 | 1,922 |
| 10 | January 11, 2021 07:45 | January 11, 2021 15:15 | 7h 30m | 966 | 6,964 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 67 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 3.9 hrs | 2.16 | 3.1 hrs | 1.99 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 25.4 hrs | 4.46 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county