Power outage history
Fayette County Texas
0.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
240th most of 240 in Texas 89% below 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 Fayette'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 2.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Fayette, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 583 | 5% | 2.8 d | – | 21k |
| May 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 364 | 3% | 30 h | – | 9.9k |
| Jun 16, 2015 | Tropical Storm Bill | 451 | 4% | 16 h | – | 6.6k |
| Oct 3, 2020 | No storm report | 402 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 2.5k |
| Jan 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,690 | 14% | 1.8 h | 3.8 h | 2.3k |
| Feb 11, 2021 | No storm report | 655 | 5% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 2.2k |
| Nov 17, 2020 | No storm report | 653 | 5% | 3.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.9k |
| Apr 18, 2016 | Flooding | 1,088 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.9k |
| Jul 21, 2017 | No storm report | 2,111 | 17% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 1.4k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | No storm report | 317 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jan 23, 2024 | No storm report | 575 | 5% | 2.0 h | – | 1.1k |
| Sep 13, 2024 | No storm report | 331 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 250 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 882 |
| Jan 22, 2017 | No storm report | 463 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 803 |
| Oct 24, 2022 | No storm report | 335 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 754 |
| May 9, 2017 | No storm report | 736 | 6% | 1.0 h | 9.0 h | 736 |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 185 | 1% | 4.0 h | – | 734 |
| Jun 25, 2017 | No storm report | 577 | 5% | 1.2 h | – | 721 |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 553 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 690 |
| Dec 26, 2022 | No storm report | 331 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 579 |
| Oct 26, 2024 | No storm report | 329 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 576 |
| Apr 13, 2015 | No storm report | 570 | 5% | 1.0 h | – | 570 |
| Jan 20, 2025 | No storm report | 192 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 520 |
| Sep 8, 2020 | No storm report | 196 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 490 |
| Apr 21, 2021 | No storm report | 306 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 458 |
| Mar 4, 2019 | No storm report | 224 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 448 |
| May 5, 2022 | No storm report | 312 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 446 |
| Jan 20, 2024 | No storm report | 161 | 1% | 2.8 h | – | 441 |
| Apr 27, 2015 | No storm report | 208 | 2% | 2.2 h | – | 440 |
| Feb 2, 2023 | Winter storm | 154 | 1% | 2.8 h | – | 424 |
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 Fayette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 41%
- No storm on record 39%
- Thunderstorms 21%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Fayette
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 |
| Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 139 | 120 | 1.75 | 11.8 | 95k |
| City of La Grange | TX | – | – | – | – | 33k |
| San Bernard Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 184 | 110 | 1.43 | 14.1 | 33k |
| City of Schulenburg | TX | – | – | – | – | 17k |
| Fayette Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 12.5 | 14k |
| City of Flatonia | TX | – | – | – | – | 11k |
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 12,466 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 →