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2023 Real County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Real County, TX went without power for an average of 14.6 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 252 Texas counties and 597th 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 Real 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 5, 2023 11:15 | April 5, 2023 17:30 | 6h 15m | 1,181 | 332 |
| 2 | May 9, 2023 04:45 | May 9, 2023 15:15 | 10h 30m | 1,103 | 1,716 |
| 3 | September 15, 2023 02:00 | September 15, 2023 21:00 | 19h | 621 | 2,306 |
| 4 | March 2, 2023 20:30 | March 2, 2023 22:00 | 1h 30m | 619 | 156 |
| 5 | January 24, 2023 09:15 | January 24, 2023 13:15 | 4h | 618 | 1,364 |
| 6 | November 19, 2023 13:00 | November 19, 2023 14:15 | 1h 15m | 614 | 355 |
| 7 | June 21, 2023 18:15 | June 22, 2023 18:30 | 1d | 421 | 1,077 |
| 8 | April 15, 2023 04:00 | April 15, 2023 09:30 | 5h 30m | 386 | 1,230 |
| 9 | February 15, 2023 16:45 | February 15, 2023 17:15 | 30m | 353 | 89 |
| 10 | February 25, 2023 13:00 | February 25, 2023 16:15 | 3h 15m | 350 | 162 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Real 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 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 1.19 | 76 min | 0.85 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.12 | 4.4 hrs | 2.06 |
| Central Texas Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.6 hrs | 2.09 | 3.5 hrs | 1.77 |
| Bandera Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.03 | 49 min | 0.55 |
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 ÷ 1,239 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. Real County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Real 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/real-county