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2022 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 612K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 181st worst of 252 Texas counties and 1769th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2022
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 24, 2022 11:45 | October 28, 2022 03:15 | 3d 15h | 16,241 | 179K |
| 2 | May 5, 2022 06:15 | May 6, 2022 12:15 | 1d 6h | 7,685 | 16K |
| 3 | July 14, 2022 14:00 | July 16, 2022 05:00 | 1d 15h | 6,626 | 17K |
| 4 | December 22, 2022 16:15 | December 26, 2022 04:00 | 3d 11h | 6,054 | 78K |
| 5 | August 19, 2022 04:30 | August 20, 2022 11:45 | 1d 7h | 4,757 | 20K |
| 6 | January 9, 2022 14:45 | January 10, 2022 06:15 | 15h 30m | 4,602 | 3,448 |
| 7 | April 12, 2022 11:45 | April 15, 2022 03:15 | 2d 15h | 4,142 | 21K |
| 8 | March 24, 2022 13:30 | March 25, 2022 01:15 | 11h 45m | 4,060 | 4,370 |
| 9 | May 23, 2022 12:00 | May 26, 2022 07:30 | 2d 19h | 3,117 | 27K |
| 10 | July 28, 2022 21:45 | July 29, 2022 12:00 | 14h 15m | 3,112 | 2,124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 148 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Bell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 81 min | 1.18 | 81 min | 1.18 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 4.4 hrs | 1.33 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 |
| City of Bartlett - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 93% of Texas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell County, TX annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/texas/bell-county