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2022 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 599K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 212th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2184th 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 Cameron 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 | March 21, 2022 06:45 | March 23, 2022 07:00 | 2d | 9,910 | 41K |
| 2 | June 19, 2022 21:45 | June 19, 2022 22:30 | 45m | 7,955 | 3,685 |
| 3 | April 24, 2022 23:15 | April 27, 2022 06:15 | 2d 7h | 6,451 | 32K |
| 4 | December 1, 2022 10:00 | December 3, 2022 08:15 | 1d 22h | 4,978 | 5,206 |
| 5 | May 24, 2022 05:30 | May 27, 2022 03:15 | 2d 21h | 4,804 | 28K |
| 6 | February 2, 2022 11:45 | February 4, 2022 06:45 | 1d 19h | 4,466 | 13K |
| 7 | May 22, 2022 12:15 | May 24, 2022 02:15 | 1d 14h | 4,128 | 13K |
| 8 | April 6, 2022 13:00 | April 8, 2022 04:15 | 1d 15h | 3,982 | 13K |
| 9 | July 27, 2022 13:00 | July 29, 2022 09:15 | 1d 20h | 3,892 | 10K |
| 10 | June 23, 2022 08:45 | June 25, 2022 01:30 | 1d 16h | 3,863 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 201 reached 100+ customers, 64 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 Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2022 | 3.5 hrs | 2.11 | 2.8 hrs | 1.49 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 3.0 hrs | - | 2.3 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.90 | 63 min | 1.33 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county