Power outage history
Cherokee County Texas
14hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
80th most of 240 in Texas 2.2× 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 Cherokee'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 28 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Cherokee, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 8,595 | 29% | 2.6 d | 2.9 d | 350k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 12,169 | 41% | 3.1 d | 26 h | 316k |
| May 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,746 | 26% | 4.0 d | 3.2 d | 269k |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 8,489 | 29% | 2.9 d | 2.1 d | 263k |
| Sep 24, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,451 | 28% | 46 h | 32 h | 146k |
| Apr 12, 2022 | No storm report | 6,187 | 21% | 40 h | 23 h | 131k |
| Apr 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 9,568 | 32% | 32 h | 4.2 h | 78k |
| Jun 2, 2024 | Flooding | 3,512 | 12% | 3.0 d | 19 h | 78k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 4,865 | 16% | 41 h | 26 h | 78k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,586 | 29% | 36 h | 17 h | 77k |
| May 6, 2023 | No storm report | 6,885 | 23% | 23 h | 18 h | 67k |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 7,028 | 24% | 22 h | 14 h | 56k |
| May 28, 2015 | No storm report | 4,782 | 16% | 34 h | 31 h | 56k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | No storm report | 3,885 | 13% | 36 h | 26 h | 55k |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,962 | 10% | 35 h | 27 h | 46k |
| May 22, 2024 | No storm report | 4,449 | 15% | 22 h | 33 h | 43k |
| Apr 9, 2024 | No storm report | 5,725 | 19% | 44 h | 7.2 h | 42k |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 3,541 | 12% | 37 h | 32 h | 41k |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,253 | 4% | 41 h | – | 33k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,708 | 16% | 22 h | 11 h | 32k |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Winter storm | 2,724 | 9% | 36 h | 33 h | 31k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,897 | 13% | 29 h | 8.5 h | 28k |
| Mar 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,049 | 7% | 28 h | 25 h | 26k |
| Aug 27, 2023 | Heat | 4,839 | 16% | 19 h | 11 h | 22k |
| Feb 20, 2021 | No storm report | 1,535 | 5% | 34 h | 31 h | 20k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | No storm report | 3,925 | 13% | 12 h | 7.5 h | 20k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,305 | 4% | 17 h | – | 19k |
| May 5, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,179 | 11% | 11 h | 8.8 h | 16k |
| Dec 19, 2017 | Tornadoes | 2,801 | 9% | 15 h | 14 h | 16k |
| Jul 14, 2022 | No storm report | 3,284 | 11% | 8.2 h | 4.8 h | 15k |
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 Cherokee from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 35%
- Thunderstorms 30%
- Winter storm 23%
- Flooding 3.6%
- Heat 3.5%
- Tropical storm 2.8%
- Tornadoes 1.3%
- Windstorm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Cherokee
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 841 | 483 | 5.37 | 14.8 | 23k |
| Houston County Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 539 | 195 | 5.37 | 15.3 | 22k |
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | Investor Owned | 232 | 67 | 1.55 | – | – |
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
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 29,708 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 →