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2022 Hidalgo County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hidalgo County, TX went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 232nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 2472nd 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 Hidalgo 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 | May 22, 2022 13:45 | May 29, 2022 10:45 | 6d 21h | 14,659 | 230K |
| 2 | November 6, 2022 18:15 | November 9, 2022 04:30 | 2d 10h | 14,619 | 39K |
| 3 | April 25, 2022 08:00 | April 27, 2022 06:30 | 1d 22h | 11,463 | 58K |
| 4 | October 23, 2022 13:30 | October 24, 2022 05:15 | 15h 45m | 9,527 | 10K |
| 5 | February 23, 2022 08:45 | February 26, 2022 05:00 | 2d 20h | 9,228 | 21K |
| 6 | April 3, 2022 06:45 | April 4, 2022 08:30 | 1d 1h | 6,159 | 12K |
| 7 | August 12, 2022 12:15 | August 17, 2022 01:30 | 4d 13h | 6,088 | 45K |
| 8 | January 15, 2022 11:30 | January 17, 2022 02:15 | 1d 14h | 5,917 | 25K |
| 9 | December 21, 2022 12:30 | December 28, 2022 12:00 | 6d 23h | 5,866 | 69K |
| 10 | February 21, 2022 05:15 | February 23, 2022 04:00 | 1d 22h | 5,521 | 9,861 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 203 reached 100+ customers, 86 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| 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 | - |
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 ÷ 753,680 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county