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2022 Willacy County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Willacy County, TX went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (Texas average 4.0 hours). That ranks 113th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1037th 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 Willacy 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 24, 2022 04:45 | May 26, 2022 23:45 | 2d 19h | 2,141 | 18K |
| 2 | April 12, 2022 12:30 | April 12, 2022 23:45 | 11h 15m | 1,521 | 6,247 |
| 3 | March 21, 2022 11:00 | March 22, 2022 07:00 | 20h | 1,477 | 4,482 |
| 4 | April 20, 2022 15:30 | April 20, 2022 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,313 | 1,879 |
| 5 | January 8, 2022 19:00 | January 8, 2022 22:00 | 3h | 1,298 | 791 |
| 6 | March 2, 2022 22:45 | March 3, 2022 01:30 | 2h 45m | 1,293 | 1,307 |
| 7 | December 17, 2022 14:00 | December 17, 2022 19:45 | 5h 45m | 784 | 2,212 |
| 8 | February 28, 2022 14:15 | February 28, 2022 20:00 | 5h 45m | 768 | 1,607 |
| 9 | January 21, 2022 08:45 | January 22, 2022 01:45 | 17h | 746 | 5,329 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 03:30 | December 23, 2022 13:45 | 10h 15m | 733 | 6,082 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 34 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Willacy 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,642 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. Willacy County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Willacy 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/willacy-county