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

Power outage history

Edwards County Texas

82hours

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

12× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 11, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 17 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 82h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 35.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 11.3days Feb 11, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 8% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 10.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 424 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 Edwards'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 10.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Edwards, hours without power per customer

EdwardsUS median countyTexas average
0 100 200 300 ’15 17 ’17 49 ’18 30 ’19 35 ’20 253 ’21 35 ’22 47 ’23 72 ’24 133 ’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 11, 2021 No storm report 424 100% 11.3 d 17 h 78k
Apr 15, 2021 No storm report 424 100% 18 h 18 h 7.7k
Mar 22, 2024 No storm report 111 26% 2.5 d 19 h 6.7k
Oct 8, 2018 Flooding 365 86% 2.6 d 12 min 5.9k
Aug 19, 2025 No storm report 424 100% 47 h 43 h 4.7k
May 25, 2025 No storm report 424 100% 2.4 d 12 min 4.6k
Jan 24, 2023 No storm report 424 100% 19 h 7.5 h 4.0k
Mar 13, 2021 No storm report 424 100% 8.0 h 8.0 h 3.4k
May 19, 2025 No storm report 73 17% 3.2 d 29 h 3.1k
Aug 4, 2024 No storm report 309 73% 24 h 17 h 3.1k
May 19, 2018 No storm report 424 100% 13 h 9.2 h 2.6k
Sep 15, 2023 No storm report 424 100% 6.0 h 5.8 h 2.3k

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 +12h

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

  • No storm on record 92%
  • Flooding 5.3%
  • Thunderstorms 1.5%
  • Heat 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Edwards

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
Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 90 78 1.16 12.8 421k
Medina Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 300 259 2.70 12.5 31k
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 195 134 – 18.3 9.4k
Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.7 5.9k
AEP Texas Central Company Investor Owned 205 155 1.76 – –
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

Across Texas

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 424 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 →