Power outage history
Burleson County Texas
7.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
160th most of 240 in Texas close to the national median
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 Burleson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Burleson, hours without power per customer
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 15, 2021 | Ice storm | 3,676 | 28% | 3.8 d | 12 h | 139k |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Ice storm | 1,938 | 15% | 2.8 d | 2.2 d | 71k |
| May 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,141 | 24% | 25 h | 22 h | 58k |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,581 | 42% | 15 h | 9.8 h | 29k |
| Jun 28, 2024 | No storm report | 3,999 | 30% | 3.5 h | 4.0 h | 13k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,324 | 10% | 17 h | 10 h | 13k |
| Jun 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,506 | 19% | 13 h | 8.5 h | 12k |
| Jan 12, 2022 | No storm report | 6,903 | 52% | 1.8 h | 11 h | 9.7k |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,295 | 10% | 12 h | 4.2 h | 9.6k |
| Jun 16, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,676 | 13% | 18 h | 5.2 h | 9.2k |
| May 28, 2021 | Flooding | 2,002 | 15% | 11 h | 1.5 h | 9.1k |
| Dec 10, 2022 | No storm report | 1,577 | 12% | 9.8 h | 4.8 h | 8.4k |
| Jun 9, 2025 | No storm report | 994 | 8% | 10 h | 10 h | 8.3k |
| May 10, 2023 | No storm report | 1,199 | 9% | 6.5 h | 9.0 h | 7.8k |
| May 16, 2024 | No storm report | 640 | 5% | 22 h | – | 7.8k |
| Feb 20, 2019 | No storm report | 2,064 | 16% | 3.8 h | 4.2 h | 7.7k |
| Dec 10, 2023 | No storm report | 939 | 7% | 8.2 h | 5.0 h | 7.7k |
| Jul 24, 2016 | No storm report | 3,308 | 25% | 2.2 h | 12 h | 7.0k |
| Jun 22, 2021 | No storm report | 1,193 | 9% | 11 h | 2.8 h | 7.0k |
| Feb 10, 2021 | No storm report | 1,205 | 9% | 6.8 h | 15 h | 6.8k |
| Jul 21, 2017 | No storm report | 7,763 | 59% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 6.3k |
| Jun 15, 2023 | No storm report | 3,903 | 30% | 1.5 h | 5.2 h | 5.9k |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Tropical Storm Bill | 1,542 | 12% | 9.5 h | 6.8 h | 5.5k |
| May 6, 2025 | No storm report | 1,516 | 12% | 4.2 h | 2.2 h | 5.4k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 732 | 6% | 6.5 h | 6.2 h | 4.8k |
| Oct 24, 2022 | No storm report | 809 | 6% | 7.2 h | 9.0 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | No storm report | 1,668 | 13% | 3.8 h | 3.0 h | 4.2k |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 526 | 4% | 14 h | – | 4.0k |
| Apr 30, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 337 | 3% | 22 h | – | 3.7k |
| Apr 15, 2022 | No storm report | 661 | 5% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 3.6k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Burleson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 41%
- Ice storm 33%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- Winter storm 1.5%
- Flooding 1.4%
- Tropical storm 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Burleson
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | Investor Owned | 403 | 305 | 2.58 | 13.9 | 469k |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 114 | 88 | 1.30 | 11.6 | 119k |
| City of Bryan | Municipal | 44 | – | 0.36 | 10.9 | 63k |
| City of Caldwell | TX | – | – | – | – | 22k |
| Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 213 | 165 | 1.46 | 15.2 | 12k |
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
- Robertson 21 h
- Milam 15 h
- Washington 9.3 h
- Burleson (this county) 7.2 h
- Lee 5.5 h
- Brazos 5.1 h
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 13,156 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 →