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2024 Hidalgo County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hidalgo County, TX went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 235th worst of 252 Texas counties and 2613th 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 Hidalgo 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 12, 2024 12:15 | May 15, 2024 08:00 | 2d 19h | 16,978 | 32K |
| 2 | April 20, 2024 13:00 | April 23, 2024 02:30 | 2d 13h | 13,929 | 101K |
| 3 | August 17, 2024 13:30 | August 18, 2024 06:45 | 17h 15m | 8,005 | 20K |
| 4 | January 3, 2024 09:15 | January 4, 2024 05:30 | 20h 15m | 7,568 | 4,671 |
| 5 | June 18, 2024 10:45 | June 24, 2024 05:15 | 5d 18h | 6,120 | 59K |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 05:15 | January 31, 2024 06:30 | 19d 1h | 5,824 | 99K |
| 7 | June 11, 2024 00:45 | June 12, 2024 07:30 | 1d 6h | 5,727 | 8,892 |
| 8 | August 18, 2024 10:45 | August 20, 2024 04:00 | 1d 17h | 5,365 | 30K |
| 9 | December 9, 2024 13:30 | December 13, 2024 09:00 | 3d 19h | 5,153 | 15K |
| 10 | September 26, 2024 08:00 | September 27, 2024 00:00 | 16h | 4,700 | 4,813 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 232 reached 100+ customers, 91 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 Hidalgo 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 |
| 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 | - |
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 ÷ 753,680 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. Hidalgo County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hidalgo 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/hidalgo-county