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

Power outage history

Kiowa County Oklahoma

15hours

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

6th most of 75 in Oklahoma 2.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 28, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 32 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.5 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 14.2days Oct 26, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 73% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 2.7 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,175 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 Kiowa'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Kiowa, hours without power per customer

KiowaUS median countyOklahoma average
0 20 40 60 80 100 73 ’15 6.0 ’16 5.2 ’17 8.1 ’18 5.5 ’19 64 ’20 5.2 ’21 5.6 ’22 15 ’23 11 ’24 7.1 ’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 26, 2020 Ice storm 4,175 100% 14.2 d 32 h 252k
Dec 27, 2015 Ice storm 4,175 100% 3.4 d 3.2 d 237k
Nov 28, 2015 Ice storm 1,121 27% 5.6 d 2.1 d 36k
Feb 11, 2024 Winter storm 822 20% 2.8 d 46 h 19k
Feb 26, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,678 40% 25 h 19 h 17k
Dec 31, 2015 No storm report 410 10% 3.1 d 3.1 d 12k
Jul 9, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,001 48% 15 h 4.8 h 12k
Jul 6, 2023 No storm report 2,120 51% 4.5 h 7.8 h 7.7k
Jun 16, 2025 No storm report 990 24% 19 h 12 h 7.1k
Jun 23, 2018 No storm report 720 17% 19 h 8.8 h 6.6k
Jul 16, 2024 Thunderstorms 545 13% 16 h 15 h 6.3k
Apr 29, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,229 29% 13 h 6.5 h 5.7k

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 +6h 90% by +18h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Ice storm 53%
  • No storm on record 27%
  • Thunderstorms 9.8%
  • Winter storm 4.6%
  • Heat 2.4%
  • Tornadoes 1.7%
  • Windstorm 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kiowa

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
Public Service Co of Oklahoma Investor Owned 200 98 1.48 14.2 506k
Southwest Rural Elec Assn Inc OK – – – 12.2 45k
CKenergy Electric Cooperative Cooperative 498 498 4.68 13.8 23k

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 4,175 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 →