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2023 Houston County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Houston County, TX went without power for an average of 21.1 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 252 Texas counties and 385th 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 Houston 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 01:15 | April 29, 2023 07:45 | 2d 6h | 5,953 | 81K |
| 2 | August 27, 2023 21:00 | August 28, 2023 23:30 | 1d 2h | 3,988 | 7,082 |
| 3 | March 3, 2023 03:30 | March 5, 2023 06:15 | 2d 2h | 3,947 | 24K |
| 4 | June 10, 2023 23:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 13h | 3,292 | 14K |
| 5 | April 18, 2023 15:15 | April 18, 2023 22:30 | 7h 15m | 3,050 | 929 |
| 6 | May 6, 2023 05:00 | May 7, 2023 01:45 | 20h 45m | 2,873 | 9,930 |
| 7 | October 5, 2023 07:00 | October 6, 2023 03:15 | 20h 15m | 2,037 | 6,636 |
| 8 | January 24, 2023 15:15 | January 24, 2023 23:45 | 8h 30m | 1,865 | 6,257 |
| 9 | June 10, 2023 17:15 | June 10, 2023 20:45 | 3h 30m | 1,853 | 2,343 |
| 10 | November 10, 2023 07:30 | November 10, 2023 11:45 | 4h 15m | 1,523 | 6,467 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 104 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Houston 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 |
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2023 | 9.1 hrs | 2.38 | 5.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| Houston 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 n/a of Texas's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,682 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. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston 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/houston-county