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2022 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 45.6 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 252 Texas counties and 90th 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 Wharton 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 | August 10, 2022 13:30 | August 13, 2022 09:30 | 2d 20h | 14,552 | 82K |
| 2 | October 22, 2022 06:30 | October 31, 2022 06:30 | 9d | 10,414 | 88K |
| 3 | January 8, 2022 10:00 | January 11, 2022 07:30 | 2d 21h | 4,762 | 26K |
| 4 | November 3, 2022 13:45 | November 6, 2022 10:00 | 2d 20h | 4,646 | 34K |
| 5 | May 18, 2022 13:00 | May 29, 2022 10:15 | 10d 21h | 4,413 | 79K |
| 6 | June 23, 2022 07:30 | June 29, 2022 04:45 | 5d 21h | 4,246 | 23K |
| 7 | February 2, 2022 13:45 | February 5, 2022 09:00 | 2d 19h | 3,999 | 6,515 |
| 8 | August 18, 2022 12:45 | August 20, 2022 07:15 | 1d 18h | 3,826 | 21K |
| 9 | September 7, 2022 12:30 | September 9, 2022 08:30 | 1d 20h | 3,552 | 9,888 |
| 10 | September 22, 2022 11:15 | September 25, 2022 09:15 | 2d 22h | 2,976 | 6,967 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 188 reached 100+ customers, 44 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Wharton 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 |
| 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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county