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2024 Zapata County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Zapata County, TX went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Texas average 25.5 hours). That ranks 170th worst of 252 Texas counties and 1720th 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 Zapata 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 23, 2024 03:45 | May 23, 2024 06:30 | 2h 45m | 2,934 | 8,065 |
| 2 | May 28, 2024 02:15 | May 28, 2024 07:00 | 4h 45m | 1,662 | 3,352 |
| 3 | November 21, 2024 13:15 | November 21, 2024 15:45 | 2h 30m | 1,327 | 1,839 |
| 4 | March 16, 2024 04:15 | March 18, 2024 23:15 | 2d 19h | 937 | 3,285 |
| 5 | November 2, 2024 14:45 | November 2, 2024 19:45 | 5h | 890 | 1,792 |
| 6 | June 18, 2024 13:15 | June 19, 2024 02:00 | 12h 45m | 859 | 419 |
| 7 | September 4, 2024 01:45 | September 4, 2024 10:00 | 8h 15m | 278 | 1,483 |
| 8 | December 6, 2024 16:00 | December 6, 2024 19:00 | 3h | 241 | 494 |
| 9 | September 2, 2024 07:00 | September 2, 2024 10:15 | 3h 15m | 237 | 770 |
| 10 | December 7, 2024 01:30 | December 7, 2024 03:45 | 2h 15m | 237 | 533 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Zapata 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 |
| Medina Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 3.9 hrs | 2.14 | 3.9 hrs | 2.14 |
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 ÷ 8,025 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. Zapata County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Zapata 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/zapata-county