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

Power outage history

Brooks County Texas

17hours

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

58th most of 240 in Texas 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 45% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.1days Hurricane Hanna, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 45% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 36 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,092 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 Brooks'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 36 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Brooks, hours without power per customer

BrooksUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 40 50 13 ’15 ’17 8.4 ’18 13 ’19 35 ’20 36 ’21 11 ’22 11 ’23 12 ’24 7.8 ’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
Feb 14, 2021 Winter storm 1,396 45% 3.7 d 2.1 d 75k
Jul 25, 2020 Hurricane Hanna 2,313 75% 4.1 d 37 h 55k
May 11, 2015 Flooding 867 28% 2.8 d 2.1 d 20k
Dec 7, 2017 Winter storm 1,254 41% 24 h 12 h 13k
May 16, 2020 No storm report 1,231 40% 36 h 9.2 h 12k
Apr 14, 2015 No storm report 2,129 69% 11 h 4.2 h 8.1k
May 19, 2021 No storm report 979 32% 36 h 7.8 h 6.7k
Sep 20, 2018 No storm report 1,999 65% 3.2 h 4.5 h 6.5k
Jun 25, 2019 No storm report 721 23% 14 h 4.0 h 4.9k
Nov 21, 2020 No storm report 1,449 47% 4.5 h 4.5 h 4.6k
Dec 2, 2019 No storm report 1,755 57% 2.5 h 6.0 h 4.4k
Aug 22, 2023 Tropical Storm Harold 813 26% 37 h 7.2 h 4.4k

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 +10h

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

  • No storm on record 55%
  • Winter storm 23%
  • Tropical storm 18%
  • Thunderstorms 1.5%
  • Heat 1.5%
  • Ice storm 0.8%
  • Wildfire 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Brooks

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
Magic Valley Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 289 231 – 10.5 130k
Nueces Electric Cooperative Cooperative 411 114 1.90 11.3 50k
Medina Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 300 259 2.70 12.5 31k
AEP Texas Central Company Investor Owned 205 155 1.76 – –

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 3,092 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 →