Power Out Map
– 0% of Brazoria out 0 customers out in Texas

Power outage history

Brazoria County Texas

28hours

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

19th most of 240 in Texas 4.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Beryl · Jul 8, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 28h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 17hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 9.7days Hurricane Beryl, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 89% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 144,164 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 Brazoria's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Brazoria, hours without power per customer

BrazoriaUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 0.3 ’15 ’17 2.7 ’18 3.3 ’19 2.9 ’20 77 ’21 17 ’22 23 ’23 92 ’24 4.3 ’25 TX 9.0 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
Jul 8, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 144,164 100% 9.7 d 6.8 d 12M
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 144,164 100% 4.1 d 27 h 6.3M
Sep 13, 2021 Hurricane Nicholas 117,419 81% 5.0 d 2.1 d 2.6M
Jun 21, 2023 Thunderstorms 57,451 40% 3.0 d 37 h 949k
Jun 8, 2023 No storm report 48,196 33% 42 h 23 h 448k
Jan 24, 2023 Tornadoes 22,233 15% 2.4 d 27 h 285k
Oct 28, 2021 No storm report 25,536 18% 29 h 17 h 183k
Aug 10, 2022 No storm report 29,641 21% 21 h 15 h 162k
Mar 15, 2024 Thunderstorms 10,641 7% 46 h 46 h 152k
Oct 25, 2022 No storm report 23,116 16% 13 h 8.2 h 148k
May 18, 2021 Thunderstorms 15,613 11% 18 h 17 h 110k
May 28, 2021 Thunderstorms 16,441 11% 18 h 16 h 97k

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 +24h

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 Brazoria from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 57%
  • Winter storm 24%
  • No storm on record 11%
  • Thunderstorms 5.8%
  • Tornadoes 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Brazoria

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

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Jackson Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.6 16k
CenterPoint Energy Investor Owned 193 151 1.95 – –
Texas-New Mexico Power Co Investor Owned 165 119 1.50 – –

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 Texas

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 144,164 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 →