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2023 Fort Bend County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fort Bend County, TX went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 202nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 1860th 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 Fort Bend 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 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | July 4, 2023 08:15 | 22d 18h | 33,334 | 656K |
| 2 | June 3, 2023 08:00 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 8d 4h | 26,430 | 353K |
| 3 | January 23, 2023 12:45 | January 29, 2023 05:45 | 5d 17h | 11,709 | 196K |
| 4 | September 4, 2023 07:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 13d 12h | 6,784 | 82K |
| 5 | September 17, 2023 20:15 | September 25, 2023 08:30 | 7d 12h | 5,371 | 35K |
| 6 | January 15, 2023 13:15 | January 16, 2023 10:00 | 20h 45m | 5,183 | 2,123 |
| 7 | January 2, 2023 06:00 | January 5, 2023 10:00 | 3d 4h | 5,080 | 6,997 |
| 8 | May 7, 2023 10:00 | May 21, 2023 11:15 | 14d 1h | 4,868 | 115K |
| 9 | August 6, 2023 12:30 | August 29, 2023 10:30 | 22d 22h | 4,543 | 126K |
| 10 | October 22, 2023 12:00 | November 3, 2023 07:00 | 11d 19h | 4,022 | 34K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 112 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Fort Bend 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CenterPoint Energy | 2023 | 5.9 hrs | 2.14 | 2.4 hrs | 1.58 |
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 ÷ 694,780 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. Fort Bend County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fort Bend 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/fort-bend-county