County annual report · FIPS 48481
2024 Wharton County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wharton County, TX went without power for an average of 49.3 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 252 Texas counties and 208th 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 Wharton 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 8, 2024 04:45 | July 19, 2024 05:30 | 11d | 15,144 | 908K |
| 2 | April 8, 2024 08:00 | April 12, 2024 10:15 | 4d 2h | 5,297 | 38K |
| 3 | May 13, 2024 13:00 | May 15, 2024 12:00 | 1d 23h | 3,199 | 22K |
| 4 | May 15, 2024 13:00 | May 17, 2024 16:45 | 2d 3h | 3,153 | 19K |
| 5 | January 3, 2024 06:15 | January 4, 2024 01:15 | 19h | 2,875 | 1,396 |
| 6 | August 4, 2024 09:30 | August 6, 2024 06:00 | 1d 20h | 2,365 | 2,885 |
| 7 | January 24, 2024 09:30 | January 26, 2024 06:00 | 1d 20h | 1,904 | 4,870 |
| 8 | January 5, 2024 09:45 | January 6, 2024 11:30 | 1d 1h | 1,900 | 5,077 |
| 9 | September 10, 2024 13:15 | September 11, 2024 03:15 | 14h | 1,742 | 573 |
| 10 | March 1, 2024 14:15 | March 2, 2024 00:15 | 10h | 1,608 | 855 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 93 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Wharton 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 |
| 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 ÷ 23,775 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. Wharton County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wharton 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/wharton-county