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2021 Real County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Real County, TX went without power for an average of 140.2 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 252 Texas counties and 45th 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 Real 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 13, 2021 14:15 | February 28, 2021 23:45 | 15d 9h | 3,411 | 147K |
| 2 | March 13, 2021 14:45 | March 13, 2021 23:45 | 9h | 1,169 | 8,113 |
| 3 | September 11, 2021 06:15 | September 11, 2021 10:15 | 4h | 762 | 2,887 |
| 4 | November 29, 2021 12:30 | November 29, 2021 13:15 | 45m | 659 | 494 |
| 5 | August 15, 2021 02:30 | August 15, 2021 03:15 | 45m | 587 | 189 |
| 6 | June 22, 2021 07:00 | June 22, 2021 16:45 | 9h 45m | 373 | 585 |
| 7 | May 6, 2021 15:15 | May 6, 2021 17:00 | 1h 45m | 357 | 625 |
| 8 | August 17, 2021 21:00 | August 17, 2021 22:15 | 1h 15m | 331 | 84 |
| 9 | August 26, 2021 13:15 | August 27, 2021 03:00 | 13h 45m | 328 | 147 |
| 10 | September 15, 2021 15:15 | September 15, 2021 15:30 | 15m | 327 | 82 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Real 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 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 84 min | 1.13 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 38.0 hrs | 10.07 | 3.0 hrs | 2.55 |
| Central Texas Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 137.5 hrs | 3.94 | 52.5 hrs | 2.54 |
| Bandera Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 15.7 hrs | 18.96 | 64 min | 0.63 |
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 ÷ 1,239 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. Real County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Real 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/real-county