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2021 Orange County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Orange County, TX went without power for an average of 25.3 hours, a total of 501K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 115th worst of 252 Texas counties and 340th 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 Orange 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 | October 27, 2021 13:15 | October 30, 2021 03:45 | 2d 14h | 13,200 | 171K |
| 2 | February 14, 2021 13:30 | February 19, 2021 02:30 | 4d 13h | 9,256 | 98K |
| 3 | August 24, 2021 22:15 | August 26, 2021 13:45 | 1d 15h | 8,158 | 54K |
| 4 | June 15, 2021 20:30 | June 17, 2021 04:45 | 1d 8h | 3,297 | 2,923 |
| 5 | December 30, 2021 18:30 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 5h 45m | 2,560 | 2,665 |
| 6 | July 18, 2021 08:15 | July 18, 2021 13:00 | 4h 45m | 2,433 | 1,874 |
| 7 | May 19, 2021 05:30 | May 20, 2021 14:00 | 1d 8h | 2,357 | 19K |
| 8 | July 27, 2021 21:45 | July 28, 2021 23:00 | 1d 1h | 2,116 | 15K |
| 9 | November 3, 2021 12:45 | November 4, 2021 04:45 | 16h | 1,844 | 1,389 |
| 10 | August 26, 2021 15:00 | August 27, 2021 00:00 | 9h | 1,831 | 2,024 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 107 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2021 | 16.7 hrs | 3.31 | 4.7 hrs | 2.02 |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 12.7 hrs | 4.99 | 9.7 hrs | 4.52 |
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 ÷ 19,786 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county