Power Out Map
– 0% of Beckham out 0 customers out in Oklahoma

Power outage history

Beckham County Oklahoma

4.8hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

54th most of 75 in Oklahoma 26% below the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 28, 2020 44% of customers out · 90% back in 6.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.8h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.7days May 16, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 7.1 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 12,818 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Beckham's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.1 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Beckham, hours without power per customer

BeckhamUS median countyOklahoma average
0 2 4 6 8 10 6.3 ’15 2.4 ’16 3.8 ’17 6.0 ’18 3.7 ’19 5.9 ’20 4.5 ’21 3.2 ’22 7.1 ’23 3.9 ’24 4.5 ’25 OK 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 28, 2020 Ice storm 5,622 44% 44 h 6.5 h 40k
May 16, 2017 Thunderstorms 8,652 68% 2.7 d 3.5 h 27k
Jul 9, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,769 37% 19 h 18 h 25k
May 14, 2018 No storm report 6,497 51% 4.5 h 4.2 h 22k
Nov 12, 2018 No storm report 3,732 29% 17 h 2.2 h 19k
Mar 13, 2021 No storm report 4,633 36% 4.0 h 3.2 h 18k
Aug 11, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,623 20% 14 h 12 h 15k
Jul 21, 2015 No storm report 768 6% 19 h 7.8 h 15k
Mar 14, 2025 Windstorm 2,575 20% 12 h 10 h 12k
May 29, 2018 Thunderstorms 954 7% 12 h 10 h 9.4k
Jun 23, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,729 21% 12 h 1.8 h 9.2k
Nov 29, 2015 Ice storm 2,426 19% 30 h 12 min 8.9k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +8h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Beckham from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 54%
  • Thunderstorms 24%
  • Ice storm 12%
  • Windstorm 5.7%
  • Heat 2.1%
  • Winter storm 2.0%
  • Flooding 0.8%
  • Tornadoes 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Beckham

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Oklahoma territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co Investor Owned 237 145 1.71 12.5 716k
Public Service Co of Oklahoma Investor Owned 200 98 1.48 14.2 506k
Northfork Electric Coop, Inc OK 131 131 – 13.7 64k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Oklahoma

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Oklahoma counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 12,818 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →