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2023 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 853K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 205th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1876th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cameron County, 2023
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 23, 2023 00:00 | April 25, 2023 11:45 | 2d 11h | 19,786 | 191K |
| 2 | May 8, 2023 01:30 | May 12, 2023 02:30 | 4d 1h | 15,286 | 115K |
| 3 | April 28, 2023 09:30 | May 3, 2023 00:15 | 4d 14h | 13,823 | 122K |
| 4 | May 12, 2023 10:30 | May 15, 2023 04:45 | 2d 18h | 8,438 | 41K |
| 5 | March 26, 2023 13:00 | March 26, 2023 23:15 | 10h 15m | 5,888 | 1,521 |
| 6 | June 27, 2023 12:00 | June 28, 2023 00:00 | 12h | 4,405 | 1,670 |
| 7 | September 16, 2023 13:15 | September 17, 2023 09:15 | 20h | 4,228 | 6,827 |
| 8 | June 23, 2023 11:45 | June 24, 2023 05:00 | 17h 15m | 4,227 | 4,696 |
| 9 | March 14, 2023 09:30 | March 16, 2023 02:15 | 1d 16h | 3,915 | 18K |
| 10 | March 28, 2023 12:30 | March 29, 2023 05:15 | 16h 45m | 3,658 | 9,039 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 178 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cameron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 6.8 hrs | 2.02 | 2.8 hrs | 1.53 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 8.4 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 2.06 | 1.5 hrs | 1.76 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Texas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron County, TX annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/texas/cameron-county