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2022 Starr County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Starr County, TX went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 202nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 2034th 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 Starr 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 | December 9, 2022 19:00 | December 9, 2022 22:30 | 3h 30m | 4,934 | 2,476 |
| 2 | April 12, 2022 10:00 | April 12, 2022 18:30 | 8h 30m | 2,734 | 9,681 |
| 3 | December 1, 2022 18:30 | December 2, 2022 05:30 | 11h | 2,333 | 1,207 |
| 4 | May 24, 2022 01:15 | May 26, 2022 07:30 | 2d 6h | 2,050 | 23K |
| 5 | December 19, 2022 17:30 | December 19, 2022 21:00 | 3h 30m | 1,784 | 2,229 |
| 6 | May 12, 2022 14:45 | May 12, 2022 18:15 | 3h 30m | 1,681 | 1,954 |
| 7 | October 11, 2022 10:15 | October 11, 2022 12:00 | 1h 45m | 1,370 | 1,661 |
| 8 | April 25, 2022 20:30 | April 27, 2022 04:15 | 1d 7h | 1,224 | 6,347 |
| 9 | May 22, 2022 12:15 | May 23, 2022 05:15 | 17h | 1,119 | 2,141 |
| 10 | August 3, 2022 19:00 | August 4, 2022 10:30 | 15h 30m | 987 | 2,107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Starr 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 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 4.6 hrs | 2.11 | 3.2 hrs | 2.06 |
| 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 ÷ 31,014 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. Starr County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starr 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/starr-county