Power outage history
Hardeman County Texas
17hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
51st most of 240 in Texas 2.7× 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 Hardeman'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 40 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hardeman, 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 | 1,110 | 100% | 43 h | 10 h | 28k |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Ice storm | 635 | 57% | 4.5 d | 2.1 d | 24k |
| Sep 24, 2022 | No storm report | 618 | 56% | 9.5 h | 9.5 h | 5.9k |
| May 19, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 598 | 54% | 9.8 h | 9.0 h | 5.8k |
| Oct 11, 2020 | No storm report | 1,110 | 100% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 4.4k |
| Sep 30, 2021 | No storm report | 1,110 | 100% | 3.8 h | 4.2 h | 4.2k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | No storm report | 1,110 | 100% | 5.2 h | 3.0 h | 3.2k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | No storm report | 1,110 | 100% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 3.1k |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,019 | 92% | 3.0 h | 5.2 h | 3.1k |
| May 14, 2020 | No storm report | 1,110 | 100% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.8k |
| Apr 13, 2015 | No storm report | 607 | 55% | 4.8 h | 8.2 h | 2.8k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Windstorm | 620 | 56% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 2.2k |
| Mar 13, 2024 | No storm report | 482 | 43% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 1.8k |
| May 3, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,110 | 100% | 5.5 h | 30 min | 1.8k |
| Apr 27, 2021 | No storm report | 1,110 | 100% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 1.4k |
| Jan 29, 2018 | No storm report | 294 | 26% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 1.4k |
| May 2, 2025 | No storm report | 359 | 32% | 4.2 h | 1.0 h | 1.4k |
| Jul 7, 2023 | No storm report | 626 | 56% | 3.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.2k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Windstorm | 529 | 48% | 3.8 h | 2.5 h | 1.2k |
| Jun 27, 2025 | No storm report | 668 | 60% | 6.8 h | 2.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jan 17, 2020 | No storm report | 139 | 13% | 12 h | 8.5 h | 1.2k |
| May 14, 2020 | No storm report | 76 | 7% | 15 h | 8.5 h | 1.0k |
| Nov 20, 2019 | No storm report | 613 | 55% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.0k |
| May 25, 2025 | No storm report | 108 | 10% | 15 h | 17 h | 738 |
| May 31, 2022 | No storm report | 578 | 52% | 10 h | 30 min | 735 |
| May 13, 2025 | No storm report | 609 | 55% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 712 |
| Aug 12, 2023 | Wildfire | 109 | 10% | 8.5 h | 6.5 h | 657 |
| Jun 30, 2021 | No storm report | 70 | 6% | 9.2 h | 6.5 h | 638 |
| Aug 18, 2019 | Wildfire | 155 | 14% | 8.8 h | 8.2 h | 632 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 154 | 14% | 7.2 h | 3.0 h | 601 |
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 Hardeman from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 46%
- Winter storm 24%
- Ice storm 19%
- Thunderstorms 6.9%
- Windstorm 3.1%
- Wildfire 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hardeman
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 11.0 | 59k |
| Southwest Rural Elec Assn Inc | OK | – | – | – | 11.9 | 29k |
| 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
- Foard 20 h
- Hardeman (this county) 17 h
- Childress 11 h
- Cottle 8.1 h
- Wilbarger 5.7 h
- Harmon, OK 2.7 h
- Jackson, OK 1.2 h
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 1,110 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 →