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2024 Matagorda County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Matagorda County, TX went without power for an average of 50.2 hours, a total of 859K customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 252 Texas counties and 204th 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 Matagorda 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 7, 2024 12:45 | July 16, 2024 04:30 | 8d 15h | 15,630 | 709K |
| 2 | May 13, 2024 13:45 | May 16, 2024 02:00 | 2d 12h | 6,286 | 39K |
| 3 | May 31, 2024 12:30 | June 3, 2024 03:00 | 2d 14h | 2,810 | 18K |
| 4 | January 12, 2024 15:15 | January 13, 2024 04:15 | 13h | 2,592 | 3,724 |
| 5 | May 5, 2024 15:45 | May 6, 2024 04:45 | 13h | 2,466 | 2,137 |
| 6 | May 9, 2024 12:30 | May 9, 2024 23:30 | 11h | 2,143 | 2,045 |
| 7 | January 15, 2024 02:00 | January 16, 2024 00:00 | 22h | 1,628 | 4,738 |
| 8 | April 4, 2024 06:15 | April 4, 2024 13:00 | 6h 45m | 1,608 | 4,410 |
| 9 | July 17, 2024 14:30 | July 19, 2024 02:00 | 1d 11h | 1,602 | 1,938 |
| 10 | May 28, 2024 13:00 | May 29, 2024 19:45 | 1d 6h | 1,601 | 1,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 58 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Matagorda 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 |
| CenterPoint Energy | 2024 | 71.9 hrs | 3.70 | 2.5 hrs | 1.62 |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,119 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. Matagorda County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Matagorda 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/matagorda-county