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2022 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 123rd worst of 252 Texas counties and 1151st 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 Jim Wells 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 21, 2022 14:00 | May 26, 2022 06:00 | 4d 16h | 2,502 | 20K |
| 2 | April 25, 2022 13:45 | April 27, 2022 07:15 | 1d 17h | 2,218 | 14K |
| 3 | November 6, 2022 20:15 | November 7, 2022 03:30 | 7h 15m | 1,626 | 4,180 |
| 4 | April 4, 2022 19:15 | April 4, 2022 19:45 | 30m | 1,609 | 403 |
| 5 | February 1, 2022 15:15 | February 1, 2022 22:30 | 7h 15m | 1,599 | 533 |
| 6 | December 30, 2022 17:30 | December 30, 2022 17:45 | 15m | 1,486 | 372 |
| 7 | April 15, 2022 10:30 | April 16, 2022 01:15 | 14h 45m | 1,040 | 2,104 |
| 8 | April 11, 2022 09:30 | April 11, 2022 11:15 | 1h 45m | 997 | 615 |
| 9 | August 13, 2022 21:30 | August 14, 2022 03:30 | 6h | 982 | 2,032 |
| 10 | July 1, 2022 20:00 | July 2, 2022 04:00 | 8h | 722 | 2,165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 59 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 4.7 hrs | 2.55 | 3.4 hrs | 2.11 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 2.64 | 2.9 hrs | 1.25 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county