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

Power outage history

Colorado County Texas

42hours

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

7th most of 240 in Texas 6.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 43 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 42h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.0days Feb 14, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 39% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 4.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,146 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 Colorado'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 4.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Colorado, hours without power per customer

ColoradoUS median countyTexas average
0 50 100 150 9.1 ’15 3.6 ’16 0.6 ’17 6.3 ’18 10 ’19 5.8 ’20 111 ’21 32 ’22 62 ’23 105 ’24 5.6 ’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 8,146 100% 5.0 d 43 h 531k
May 16, 2024 No storm report 8,146 100% 3.1 d 14 h 498k
Sep 13, 2021 Hurricane Nicholas 8,146 100% 3.9 d 35 h 146k
Jul 8, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 5,004 61% 3.4 d 33 h 100k
Jun 21, 2023 No storm report 7,324 90% 3.1 d 29 h 96k
Jun 8, 2023 No storm report 5,606 69% 38 h 23 h 61k
Jun 16, 2015 Tropical Storm Bill 2,861 35% 45 h 22 h 36k
Jun 6, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,654 45% 28 h 17 h 32k
Jan 24, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,543 31% 2.2 d 26 h 30k
Mar 21, 2024 No storm report 4,890 60% 20 h 12 h 23k
Aug 10, 2022 No storm report 2,581 32% 27 h 20 h 21k
Apr 10, 2024 No storm report 3,113 38% 21 h 12 h 20k

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

  • No storm on record 61%
  • Winter storm 22%
  • Tropical storm 11%
  • Thunderstorms 4.0%
  • Heat 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Colorado

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
Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 114 88 1.30 11.6 119k
San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 184 110 1.43 14.1 33k
Fayette Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 12.5 14k
City of Weimar TX – – – – 12k
Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.2 5.6k
CenterPoint Energy Investor Owned 193 151 1.95 – –
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+

All Texas 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 8,146 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 →