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2023 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 160th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1353rd 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 Jim Wells 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 | January 25, 2023 10:15 | January 25, 2023 10:45 | 30m | 5,380 | 1,579 |
| 2 | April 27, 2023 07:30 | April 27, 2023 10:15 | 2h 45m | 2,013 | 1,141 |
| 3 | April 6, 2023 02:15 | April 8, 2023 05:00 | 2d 2h | 2,008 | 8,499 |
| 4 | August 22, 2023 11:30 | August 24, 2023 03:00 | 1d 15h | 1,888 | 11K |
| 5 | January 4, 2023 15:30 | January 4, 2023 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,481 | 1,499 |
| 6 | May 3, 2023 13:15 | May 4, 2023 12:45 | 23h 30m | 1,030 | 802 |
| 7 | April 23, 2023 14:45 | April 24, 2023 05:30 | 14h 45m | 1,028 | 3,664 |
| 8 | March 17, 2023 08:15 | March 18, 2023 02:00 | 17h 45m | 891 | 3,607 |
| 9 | July 31, 2023 19:30 | August 1, 2023 14:30 | 19h | 874 | 2,269 |
| 10 | December 3, 2023 11:30 | December 4, 2023 00:00 | 12h 30m | 815 | 3,607 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 59 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.87 | 3.0 hrs | 1.73 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 7.0 hrs | 3.41 | 2.7 hrs | 1.35 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county