Power outage history
Childress County Texas
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
111th most of 240 in Texas 1.6× 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 Childress's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 32 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Childress, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2020 | Ice storm | 2,451 | 100% | 2.7 d | 34 h | 59k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,018 | 42% | 2.8 d | 2.8 d | 56k |
| Sep 30, 2021 | No storm report | 2,451 | 100% | 4.8 h | 17 h | 9.9k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | No storm report | 2,451 | 100% | 3.0 h | 10 h | 7.2k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,451 | 100% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 6.4k |
| Dec 27, 2015 | Winter storm | 120 | 5% | 36 h | – | 4.3k |
| Aug 1, 2025 | No storm report | 939 | 38% | 11 h | 9.5 h | 4.2k |
| Apr 27, 2021 | No storm report | 2,451 | 100% | 1.8 h | 6.0 h | 3.9k |
| Apr 12, 2015 | No storm report | 545 | 22% | 11 h | 2.0 h | 3.8k |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Ice storm | 545 | 22% | 12 h | 1.0 h | 2.3k |
| Jun 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 774 | 32% | 4.2 h | 3.5 h | 1.6k |
| Mar 8, 2025 | Winter storm | 453 | 18% | 6.2 h | 3.0 h | 1.4k |
| Apr 9, 2024 | No storm report | 847 | 35% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.3k |
| Sep 16, 2020 | No storm report | 2,451 | 100% | 30 min | 30 min | 1.2k |
| Apr 10, 2016 | No storm report | 106 | 4% | 11 h | – | 1.1k |
| Dec 29, 2015 | No storm report | 119 | 5% | 25 h | – | 977 |
| Jul 4, 2020 | No storm report | 660 | 27% | 3.8 h | 3.2 h | 893 |
| Mar 25, 2021 | No storm report | 833 | 34% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 833 |
| Mar 27, 2018 | No storm report | 288 | 12% | 6.2 h | 16 h | 828 |
| Sep 21, 2018 | No storm report | 752 | 31% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 752 |
| Apr 7, 2020 | No storm report | 788 | 32% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 737 |
| Dec 17, 2022 | No storm report | 114 | 5% | 6.2 h | – | 712 |
| Jun 13, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 226 | 9% | 8.8 h | 4.0 h | 708 |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Windstorm | 141 | 6% | 5.0 h | 1.5 h | 657 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 157 | 6% | 7.2 h | 4.0 h | 629 |
| Jan 11, 2023 | No storm report | 532 | 22% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 593 |
| Aug 8, 2019 | No storm report | 115 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 572 |
| Nov 24, 2020 | No storm report | 546 | 22% | 2.8 h | 30 min | 566 |
| Feb 6, 2023 | No storm report | 56 | 2% | 10 h | – | 560 |
| Nov 12, 2018 | No storm report | 290 | 12% | 3.0 h | 7.5 h | 501 |
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 Childress from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 34%
- Winter storm 31%
- No storm on record 27%
- Thunderstorms 6.0%
- Windstorm 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Childress
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 467 | 312 | 2.98 | 12.6 | 157k |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 11.0 | 59k |
| Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 17.9 | 3.9k |
| Lighthouse Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 16.2 | 3.9k |
| AEP Texas North Company | Investor Owned | 133 | 106 | 1.41 | – | – |
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
- Hardeman 17 h
- Childress (this county) 11 h
- Hall 9.8 h
- Collingsworth 8.6 h
- Cottle 8.1 h
- Harmon, OK 2.7 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 2,451 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 →