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2024 Jim Wells County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Jim Wells County, TX went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 139th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1310th 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 Jim Wells 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 | July 28, 2024 10:30 | July 28, 2024 13:45 | 3h 15m | 4,272 | 8,848 |
| 2 | November 26, 2024 15:15 | December 4, 2024 23:30 | 8d 8h | 1,651 | 6,995 |
| 3 | April 10, 2024 05:45 | April 11, 2024 03:00 | 21h 15m | 1,597 | 11K |
| 4 | March 17, 2024 06:30 | March 19, 2024 00:00 | 1d 17h | 1,303 | 6,717 |
| 5 | March 10, 2024 21:45 | March 11, 2024 11:15 | 13h 30m | 1,068 | 13K |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 09:00 | January 13, 2024 03:00 | 18h | 1,055 | 2,453 |
| 7 | January 24, 2024 09:00 | January 24, 2024 15:15 | 6h 15m | 1,046 | 4,516 |
| 8 | May 28, 2024 23:30 | May 30, 2024 03:45 | 1d 4h | 1,005 | 3,298 |
| 9 | November 3, 2024 14:45 | November 3, 2024 20:45 | 6h | 948 | 639 |
| 10 | October 4, 2024 07:00 | October 5, 2024 06:15 | 23h 15m | 947 | 2,689 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 64 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Jim Wells 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 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 3.3 hrs | 2.09 | 3.3 hrs | 2.09 |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 7.3 hrs | 3.27 | 2.8 hrs | 1.28 |
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 ÷ 17,612 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. Jim Wells County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jim Wells 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/jim-wells-county