Power outage history
Cottle County Texas
8.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
140th most of 240 in Texas 1.2× 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 Cottle'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 30 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Cottle, 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 | 712 | 100% | 25 h | 31 h | 18k |
| Dec 7, 2022 | No storm report | 712 | 100% | 3.8 h | 15 h | 2.7k |
| Jun 19, 2020 | No storm report | 274 | 38% | 7.8 h | 7.8 h | 2.1k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 163 | 23% | 8.5 h | 8.0 h | 900 |
| Jan 12, 2021 | No storm report | 567 | 80% | 9.2 h | 30 min | 576 |
| May 13, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 712 | 100% | 48 min | 3.2 h | 534 |
| Mar 3, 2025 | No storm report | 140 | 20% | 3.2 h | 4.5 h | 450 |
| Mar 7, 2024 | No storm report | 712 | 100% | 48 min | 2.8 h | 394 |
| May 28, 2024 | No storm report | 712 | 100% | 30 min | 30 min | 356 |
| Apr 29, 2025 | No storm report | 39 | 5% | 15 h | 16 h | 355 |
| Jun 11, 2025 | No storm report | 96 | 13% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 336 |
| Sep 14, 2025 | No storm report | 77 | 11% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 298 |
| May 3, 2018 | No storm report | 575 | 81% | 48 min | – | 285 |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Windstorm | 184 | 26% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 230 |
| May 19, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 598 | 84% | 48 min | 12 min | 230 |
| Jun 9, 2025 | No storm report | 196 | 28% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 227 |
| Aug 1, 2025 | No storm report | 171 | 24% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 214 |
| Nov 3, 2020 | No storm report | 87 | 12% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 214 |
| Mar 7, 2025 | No storm report | 43 | 6% | 4.8 h | 2.5 h | 196 |
| Nov 29, 2025 | No storm report | 193 | 27% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 158 |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 85 | 12% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 148 |
| Sep 10, 2023 | No storm report | 115 | 16% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 144 |
| Apr 20, 2025 | No storm report | 279 | 39% | 30 min | 30 min | 140 |
| Dec 10, 2024 | No storm report | 43 | 6% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 129 |
| Aug 28, 2025 | No storm report | 160 | 22% | 48 min | 48 min | 120 |
| Oct 22, 2018 | No storm report | 27 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 101 |
| May 28, 2023 | No storm report | 79 | 11% | 1.2 h | 4.5 h | 99 |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 46 | 6% | 4.5 h | 6.0 h | 95 |
| Jun 12, 2024 | No storm report | 38 | 5% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 95 |
| May 16, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 42 | 6% | 2.2 h | 2.8 h | 94 |
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 Cottle from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 57%
- No storm on record 34%
- Thunderstorms 7.0%
- Windstorm 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Cottle
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 Public Service Co | Investor Owned | 441 | 151 | 1.71 | 13.9 | 224k |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 11.0 | 59k |
| 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.
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 712 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 →