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2023 Starr County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Starr County, TX went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 172nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 1477th 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 Starr 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 29, 2023 15:00 | January 29, 2023 18:45 | 3h 45m | 4,993 | 9,914 |
| 2 | April 23, 2023 16:45 | May 4, 2023 18:45 | 11d 2h | 4,327 | 38K |
| 3 | May 13, 2023 04:45 | May 17, 2023 06:30 | 4d 1h | 2,582 | 15K |
| 4 | January 24, 2023 09:30 | January 24, 2023 16:30 | 7h | 2,533 | 5,861 |
| 5 | August 10, 2023 14:45 | August 10, 2023 21:00 | 6h 15m | 1,957 | 4,441 |
| 6 | September 28, 2023 01:15 | September 28, 2023 11:45 | 10h 30m | 1,937 | 654 |
| 7 | March 14, 2023 12:15 | March 16, 2023 05:30 | 1d 17h | 1,856 | 5,938 |
| 8 | June 4, 2023 01:00 | June 5, 2023 18:00 | 1d 17h | 1,816 | 8,872 |
| 9 | September 14, 2023 13:30 | September 14, 2023 21:30 | 8h | 1,767 | 1,438 |
| 10 | September 27, 2023 00:30 | September 27, 2023 04:45 | 4h 15m | 1,757 | 3,953 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 52 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Starr 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 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.12 | 4.4 hrs | 2.06 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 8.4 hrs | - | 3.2 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 31,014 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. Starr County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starr 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/starr-county