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2023 Refugio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Refugio County, TX went without power for an average of 10.9 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 105th worst of 252 Texas counties and 779th 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 Refugio 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 30, 2023 12:15 | August 30, 2023 20:30 | 8h 15m | 1,033 | 1,344 |
| 2 | September 15, 2023 20:00 | September 17, 2023 07:00 | 1d 11h | 1,030 | 4,688 |
| 3 | April 7, 2023 02:45 | April 7, 2023 19:15 | 16h 30m | 912 | 1,831 |
| 4 | March 2, 2023 15:00 | March 2, 2023 16:00 | 1h | 803 | 641 |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 14:00 | August 1, 2023 15:30 | 12d 1h | 552 | 7,200 |
| 6 | September 26, 2023 02:15 | September 26, 2023 15:45 | 13h 30m | 451 | 1,369 |
| 7 | January 27, 2023 16:15 | January 27, 2023 17:45 | 1h 30m | 436 | 611 |
| 8 | January 25, 2023 16:00 | January 25, 2023 17:30 | 1h 30m | 435 | 653 |
| 9 | January 25, 2023 23:00 | January 25, 2023 23:45 | 45m | 435 | 168 |
| 10 | October 12, 2023 13:00 | October 12, 2023 17:45 | 4h 45m | 335 | 560 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 25 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 Refugio 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 |
| Victoria Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 2.36 | 3.3 hrs | 2.33 |
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 ÷ 3,401 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. Refugio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Refugio 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/refugio-county