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2023 Hidalgo County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hidalgo County, TX went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 5.6M customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 135th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1098th 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 Hidalgo 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 27, 2023 07:45 | May 16, 2023 03:45 | 18d 20h | 200,550 | 4.3M |
| 2 | April 19, 2023 12:00 | April 25, 2023 07:00 | 5d 19h | 15,711 | 105K |
| 3 | April 5, 2023 04:15 | April 8, 2023 23:30 | 3d 19h | 13,582 | 80K |
| 4 | June 9, 2023 11:45 | June 10, 2023 16:15 | 1d 4h | 12,107 | 9,858 |
| 5 | March 14, 2023 11:30 | March 18, 2023 05:45 | 3d 18h | 11,750 | 121K |
| 6 | November 7, 2023 14:15 | November 8, 2023 08:00 | 17h 45m | 11,580 | 17K |
| 7 | June 8, 2023 09:45 | June 9, 2023 07:00 | 21h 15m | 10,410 | 27K |
| 8 | August 2, 2023 06:15 | August 3, 2023 06:30 | 1d | 10,381 | 20K |
| 9 | June 3, 2023 09:15 | June 8, 2023 05:45 | 4d 20h | 10,106 | 71K |
| 10 | March 28, 2023 12:00 | April 1, 2023 09:45 | 3d 21h | 8,794 | 41K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 212 reached 100+ customers, 94 reached 1,000+ customers, 9 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 Hidalgo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| 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 | - |
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 ÷ 753,680 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county