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2024 Cameron County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cameron County, TX went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 490K customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 226th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2445th 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 Cameron 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 | December 9, 2024 14:15 | December 10, 2024 11:45 | 21h 30m | 9,339 | 19K |
| 2 | June 7, 2024 13:15 | June 7, 2024 23:15 | 10h | 8,426 | 6,593 |
| 3 | May 9, 2024 07:15 | May 10, 2024 20:45 | 1d 13h | 6,981 | 7,843 |
| 4 | October 5, 2024 03:30 | October 6, 2024 01:30 | 22h | 6,674 | 13K |
| 5 | August 21, 2024 11:30 | August 22, 2024 06:30 | 19h | 6,375 | 3,867 |
| 6 | June 26, 2024 12:15 | June 27, 2024 03:00 | 14h 45m | 4,627 | 7,987 |
| 7 | May 29, 2024 05:45 | May 30, 2024 22:45 | 1d 17h | 4,101 | 21K |
| 8 | February 2, 2024 15:00 | February 3, 2024 05:30 | 14h 30m | 4,007 | 2,953 |
| 9 | April 22, 2024 11:15 | April 23, 2024 03:00 | 15h 45m | 3,875 | 8,217 |
| 10 | February 13, 2024 10:30 | February 14, 2024 03:15 | 16h 45m | 3,502 | 3,153 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 212 reached 100+ customers, 58 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 Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2024 | 3.8 hrs | 1.63 | 2.5 hrs | 1.46 |
| Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Brownsville Public Utilities Board | 2024 | 2.7 hrs | 2.83 | 76 min | 1.82 |
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 ÷ 262,299 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. Cameron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cameron 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/cameron-county