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2024 Bell County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bell County, TX went without power for an average of 14.0 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 252 Texas counties and 693rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bell County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 22, 2024 13:45 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 1d 10h | 62,146 | 1.2M |
| 2 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 2, 2024 07:45 | 8d 22h | 25,977 | 863K |
| 3 | March 22, 2024 02:00 | March 22, 2024 19:15 | 17h 15m | 7,653 | 8,296 |
| 4 | May 12, 2024 12:30 | May 13, 2024 22:00 | 1d 9h | 5,216 | 28K |
| 5 | May 16, 2024 17:15 | May 18, 2024 07:45 | 1d 14h | 5,212 | 25K |
| 6 | December 4, 2024 12:15 | December 5, 2024 03:15 | 15h | 5,122 | 9,190 |
| 7 | October 14, 2024 12:30 | October 15, 2024 06:00 | 17h 30m | 3,616 | 5,643 |
| 8 | March 19, 2024 12:15 | March 19, 2024 21:15 | 9h | 3,493 | 2,764 |
| 9 | December 25, 2024 02:15 | December 25, 2024 17:15 | 15h | 3,455 | 7,710 |
| 10 | April 27, 2024 13:45 | April 30, 2024 03:30 | 2d 13h | 3,434 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 124 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 Bell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 57 min | 0.79 | 57 min | 0.79 |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.17 | 5.0 hrs | 2.01 |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.2 hrs | 1.50 | 2.3 hrs | 1.15 |
| City of Bartlett - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 171,225 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. Bell County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bell County, TX annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/texas/bell-county