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2023 Orange County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Orange County, TX went without power for an average of 46.3 hours, a total of 916K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 252 Texas counties and 121st 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 Orange 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 24, 2023 15:30 | January 31, 2023 20:30 | 7d 5h | 17,619 | 432K |
| 2 | April 3, 2023 22:45 | April 4, 2023 06:45 | 8h | 10,785 | 42K |
| 3 | May 8, 2023 13:15 | May 12, 2023 04:15 | 3d 15h | 9,993 | 142K |
| 4 | May 30, 2023 12:30 | June 1, 2023 00:15 | 1d 11h | 3,564 | 7,812 |
| 5 | October 4, 2023 13:00 | October 4, 2023 22:00 | 9h | 3,400 | 928 |
| 6 | October 7, 2023 12:45 | October 9, 2023 22:15 | 2d 9h | 2,811 | 1,760 |
| 7 | October 3, 2023 09:30 | October 3, 2023 23:30 | 14h | 2,665 | 11K |
| 8 | August 18, 2023 19:00 | August 18, 2023 19:15 | 15m | 2,596 | 649 |
| 9 | August 23, 2023 13:00 | August 25, 2023 07:00 | 1d 18h | 2,596 | 2,890 |
| 10 | January 10, 2023 14:15 | January 10, 2023 20:00 | 5h 45m | 2,505 | 1,888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 105 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | 2023 | 9.1 hrs | 2.38 | 5.2 hrs | 2.00 |
| Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 10.3 hrs | 5.30 | 8.3 hrs | 4.78 |
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 ÷ 19,786 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county