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2023 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 67.5 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 252 Texas counties and 58th 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 Wharton 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 | June 8, 2023 12:45 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 2d 23h | 25,255 | 270K |
| 2 | June 15, 2023 09:45 | June 30, 2023 10:00 | 15d | 24,089 | 457K |
| 3 | January 24, 2023 14:15 | January 29, 2023 10:30 | 4d 20h | 8,859 | 140K |
| 4 | July 1, 2023 13:30 | July 7, 2023 07:15 | 5d 17h | 6,040 | 26K |
| 5 | June 2, 2023 11:45 | June 7, 2023 09:00 | 4d 21h | 5,782 | 69K |
| 6 | April 8, 2023 11:45 | April 9, 2023 07:00 | 19h 15m | 5,191 | 1,774 |
| 7 | July 7, 2023 10:15 | July 8, 2023 07:15 | 21h | 4,686 | 4,251 |
| 8 | May 8, 2023 12:15 | May 18, 2023 09:45 | 9d 21h | 4,046 | 106K |
| 9 | March 2, 2023 12:15 | March 4, 2023 02:30 | 1d 14h | 2,697 | 12K |
| 10 | November 9, 2023 06:30 | November 10, 2023 05:00 | 22h 30m | 2,558 | 3,652 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 181 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Wharton 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2023 | 5.9 hrs | 2.14 | 2.4 hrs | 1.58 |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county