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2023 Willacy County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Willacy County, TX went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Texas average 8.1 hours). That ranks 157th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1307th 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 Willacy 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 23, 2023 17:45 | April 24, 2023 21:15 | 1d 3h | 2,015 | 15K |
| 2 | October 9, 2023 10:15 | October 9, 2023 17:15 | 7h | 1,516 | 2,951 |
| 3 | October 8, 2023 14:00 | October 8, 2023 21:45 | 7h 45m | 1,161 | 3,186 |
| 4 | October 14, 2023 15:15 | October 14, 2023 17:30 | 2h 15m | 914 | 1,951 |
| 5 | March 16, 2023 12:00 | March 16, 2023 14:15 | 2h 15m | 913 | 230 |
| 6 | September 16, 2023 20:15 | September 17, 2023 02:30 | 6h 15m | 899 | 4,176 |
| 7 | March 17, 2023 11:15 | March 17, 2023 21:15 | 10h | 796 | 2,863 |
| 8 | May 13, 2023 06:30 | May 14, 2023 01:45 | 19h 15m | 783 | 7,031 |
| 9 | August 22, 2023 07:15 | August 22, 2023 14:30 | 7h 15m | 773 | 238 |
| 10 | March 28, 2023 20:45 | March 29, 2023 01:00 | 4h 15m | 673 | 2,151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Willacy 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 |
| 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 ÷ 11,642 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. Willacy County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Willacy 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/willacy-county