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2023 Nueces County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Nueces County, TX went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 775K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 177th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1513th 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 Nueces 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 | August 22, 2023 10:45 | August 25, 2023 07:30 | 2d 20h | 18,617 | 150K |
| 2 | March 2, 2023 14:15 | March 5, 2023 06:45 | 2d 16h | 12,392 | 65K |
| 3 | April 23, 2023 07:30 | April 25, 2023 13:15 | 2d 5h | 8,129 | 38K |
| 4 | May 25, 2023 12:30 | May 26, 2023 06:45 | 18h 15m | 6,972 | 11K |
| 5 | June 4, 2023 17:45 | June 6, 2023 04:00 | 1d 10h | 6,793 | 14K |
| 6 | April 21, 2023 07:15 | April 22, 2023 01:45 | 18h 30m | 6,691 | 2,438 |
| 7 | April 22, 2023 14:15 | April 23, 2023 04:45 | 14h 30m | 6,474 | 5,004 |
| 8 | October 12, 2023 13:30 | October 13, 2023 08:00 | 18h 30m | 6,088 | 6,336 |
| 9 | August 27, 2023 11:00 | August 28, 2023 06:45 | 19h 45m | 6,050 | 22K |
| 10 | January 24, 2023 09:45 | January 25, 2023 06:00 | 20h 15m | 4,875 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 199 reached 100+ customers, 59 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Nueces 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 |
| City of Robstown - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 162,267 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. Nueces County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nueces 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/nueces-county