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2021 Val Verde County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Val Verde County, TX went without power for an average of 48.9 hours, a total of 917K customer-hours (Texas average 21.0 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 252 Texas counties and 186th 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 Val Verde 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 14, 2021 23:30 | February 20, 2021 22:30 | 5d 23h | 12,769 | 846K |
| 2 | September 18, 2021 06:30 | September 18, 2021 06:45 | 15m | 5,853 | 1,463 |
| 3 | June 22, 2021 07:45 | June 22, 2021 18:30 | 10h 45m | 3,602 | 15K |
| 4 | September 24, 2021 04:00 | September 24, 2021 04:15 | 15m | 1,519 | 380 |
| 5 | April 16, 2021 10:30 | April 16, 2021 15:00 | 4h 30m | 1,472 | 2,233 |
| 6 | June 28, 2021 01:30 | June 28, 2021 02:30 | 1h | 1,460 | 1,460 |
| 7 | July 23, 2021 02:00 | July 23, 2021 05:00 | 3h | 1,396 | 706 |
| 8 | July 29, 2021 08:45 | July 29, 2021 11:30 | 2h 45m | 1,229 | 3,375 |
| 9 | June 1, 2021 02:30 | June 1, 2021 08:00 | 5h 30m | 1,032 | 1,400 |
| 10 | January 12, 2021 13:30 | January 12, 2021 23:30 | 10h | 1,008 | 497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 52 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Val Verde 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 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.3 hrs | - | 5.3 hrs | - |
| Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,757 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. Val Verde County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Val Verde 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/val-verde-county