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2021 Refugio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Refugio County, TX went without power for an average of 49.6 hours, a total of 169K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 252 Texas counties and 183rd 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 Refugio 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 15, 2021 04:45 | February 19, 2021 23:45 | 4d 19h | 2,114 | 111K |
| 2 | April 24, 2021 01:15 | April 24, 2021 20:45 | 19h 30m | 816 | 3,490 |
| 3 | October 1, 2021 07:30 | October 1, 2021 17:15 | 9h 45m | 812 | 3,212 |
| 4 | May 18, 2021 23:45 | May 21, 2021 17:00 | 2d 17h | 785 | 4,668 |
| 5 | June 2, 2021 06:30 | June 2, 2021 08:15 | 1h 45m | 782 | 1,365 |
| 6 | April 17, 2021 07:45 | April 17, 2021 13:00 | 5h 15m | 776 | 1,950 |
| 7 | January 10, 2021 09:00 | January 10, 2021 10:30 | 1h 30m | 775 | 1,163 |
| 8 | January 9, 2021 18:30 | January 9, 2021 21:15 | 2h 45m | 774 | 973 |
| 9 | June 24, 2021 13:30 | June 24, 2021 21:30 | 8h | 552 | 993 |
| 10 | July 14, 2021 13:00 | July 14, 2021 16:30 | 3h 30m | 552 | 701 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 47 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Refugio 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 |
| Victoria Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 52.4 hrs | 8.17 | 48.4 hrs | 7.70 |
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 ÷ 3,401 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. Refugio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Refugio 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/refugio-county