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2022 Matagorda County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Matagorda County, TX went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 210K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 252 Texas counties and 559th 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 Matagorda 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 | April 20, 2022 12:30 | April 21, 2022 04:00 | 15h 30m | 2,707 | 4,443 |
| 2 | November 4, 2022 13:00 | November 6, 2022 02:45 | 1d 13h | 2,530 | 5,224 |
| 3 | May 22, 2022 07:45 | May 23, 2022 23:15 | 1d 15h | 2,493 | 7,136 |
| 4 | June 27, 2022 19:30 | June 30, 2022 06:15 | 2d 10h | 2,228 | 18K |
| 5 | August 27, 2022 17:30 | August 29, 2022 04:00 | 1d 10h | 2,127 | 9,654 |
| 6 | May 26, 2022 13:30 | May 26, 2022 18:45 | 5h 15m | 2,118 | 1,072 |
| 7 | May 16, 2022 08:00 | May 16, 2022 20:00 | 12h | 1,588 | 3,294 |
| 8 | October 28, 2022 05:45 | October 28, 2022 17:45 | 12h | 1,577 | 2,939 |
| 9 | May 14, 2022 05:00 | May 14, 2022 13:00 | 8h | 1,552 | 4,457 |
| 10 | August 10, 2022 22:45 | August 12, 2022 03:30 | 1d 4h | 1,240 | 8,240 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 126 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Matagorda 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2022 | 3.9 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.57 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County 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 93% of Texas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,119 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. Matagorda County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Matagorda 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/matagorda-county