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2023 San Patricio County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in San Patricio County, TX went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 170th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1448th 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 San Patricio 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 6, 2023 13:45 | April 8, 2023 12:00 | 1d 22h | 7,338 | 11K |
| 2 | October 31, 2023 07:45 | October 31, 2023 09:00 | 1h 15m | 3,943 | 4,874 |
| 3 | May 13, 2023 09:45 | May 14, 2023 03:15 | 17h 30m | 3,769 | 12K |
| 4 | May 9, 2023 10:00 | May 10, 2023 06:30 | 20h 30m | 2,871 | 9,570 |
| 5 | August 16, 2023 13:15 | August 18, 2023 02:45 | 1d 13h | 2,840 | 7,771 |
| 6 | April 22, 2023 12:30 | April 24, 2023 12:00 | 1d 23h | 2,526 | 6,358 |
| 7 | August 15, 2023 08:45 | August 15, 2023 22:45 | 14h | 1,788 | 1,368 |
| 8 | September 28, 2023 13:15 | September 30, 2023 04:30 | 1d 15h | 1,783 | 1,042 |
| 9 | July 14, 2023 12:00 | July 15, 2023 02:15 | 14h 15m | 1,721 | 1,380 |
| 10 | March 21, 2023 13:00 | March 23, 2023 01:45 | 1d 12h | 1,687 | 2,529 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 San Patricio 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 |
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 ÷ 35,667 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. San Patricio County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Patricio 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/san-patricio-county