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

Power outage history

Freestone County Texas

23hours

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

32nd most of 240 in Texas 3.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 15, 2021 64% of customers out · 90% back in 5.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 23h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.8 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 11.0days Feb 11, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 59% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,915 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 Freestone'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 2.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Freestone, hours without power per customer

FreestoneUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 5.6 ’15 ’16 ’17 4.1 ’18 13 ’19 8.8 ’20 59 ’21 12 ’22 46 ’23 26 ’24 16 ’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 Ice storm 5,683 64% 11.0 d 5.3 d 403k
Feb 1, 2023 Ice storm 4,416 50% 4.5 d 3.3 d 209k
Jun 21, 2023 Thunderstorms 8,346 94% 2.7 d 28 h 120k
May 22, 2024 No storm report 5,699 64% 24 h 34 h 56k
Jan 10, 2021 No storm report 3,160 35% 2.2 d 42 h 53k
Mar 4, 2025 Thunderstorms 4,431 50% 23 h 11 h 36k
May 24, 2024 No storm report 960 11% 2.5 d 2.2 d 32k
Jan 23, 2024 No storm report 1,689 19% 19 h 18 h 26k
Jul 10, 2019 No storm report 1,896 21% 17 h 16 h 23k
May 25, 2015 Tornadoes 1,195 13% 30 h 27 h 22k
May 21, 2022 No storm report 4,345 49% 20 h 9.2 h 21k
Jun 1, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,730 42% 24 h 11 h 17k

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 +12h 90% by +26h

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

  • No storm on record 41%
  • Ice storm 41%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Heat 2.5%
  • Flooding 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Freestone

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
Houston County Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 539 195 5.37 15.3 22k
Navasota Valley Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 569 473 4.45 16.3 20k
Navarro County Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 12.9 19k
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Investor Owned 232 67 1.55 – –

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 8,915 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 →