Power outage history
Hardin County Texas
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
110th most of 240 in Texas 1.7× 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 Hardin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hardin, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2017 | Hurricane Harvey | 14,413 | 43% | 11.6 d | 7.4 d | 1.1M |
| Jun 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 20,456 | 60% | 2.9 d | 2.1 d | 524k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 13,197 | 39% | 3.8 d | 32 h | 274k |
| May 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 18,076 | 53% | 2.1 d | 25 h | 227k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 9,410 | 28% | 4.2 d | 31 h | 184k |
| May 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 6,912 | 20% | 45 h | 27 h | 116k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 8,349 | 25% | 26 h | 14 h | 83k |
| Oct 29, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 5,146 | 15% | 41 h | 24 h | 59k |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Hurricane Delta | 3,889 | 11% | 27 h | 24 h | 55k |
| Jun 18, 2016 | No storm report | 7,822 | 23% | 13 h | 9.0 h | 55k |
| Oct 22, 2017 | No storm report | 10,873 | 32% | 5.5 h | 4.0 h | 30k |
| May 19, 2021 | No storm report | 7,181 | 21% | 15 h | 8.5 h | 29k |
| Apr 7, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 5,225 | 15% | 19 h | 10 h | 29k |
| May 8, 2023 | Tornadoes | 2,339 | 7% | 26 h | 26 h | 25k |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 3,102 | 9% | 19 h | 18 h | 25k |
| May 9, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,160 | 12% | 16 h | 12 h | 25k |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Heat | 3,689 | 11% | 19 h | 17 h | 22k |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Ice storm | 5,122 | 15% | 12 h | 4.5 h | 21k |
| May 27, 2016 | No storm report | 1,263 | 4% | 20 h | – | 21k |
| May 2, 2024 | Flooding | 2,865 | 8% | 13 h | 3.8 h | 20k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 5,461 | 16% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 19k |
| Apr 29, 2020 | No storm report | 2,434 | 7% | 13 h | 13 h | 17k |
| Jul 10, 2022 | No storm report | 6,020 | 18% | 8.2 h | 5.8 h | 16k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,228 | 15% | 12 h | 7.2 h | 15k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,084 | 3% | 16 h | – | 13k |
| Oct 25, 2025 | No storm report | 1,572 | 5% | 13 h | – | 13k |
| Dec 29, 2025 | No storm report | 1,834 | 5% | 11 h | 6.8 h | 13k |
| Aug 4, 2020 | No storm report | 2,094 | 6% | 7.8 h | 6.2 h | 12k |
| Jan 15, 2022 | No storm report | 948 | 3% | 16 h | – | 12k |
| Aug 12, 2017 | No storm report | 2,879 | 8% | 7.8 h | 48 min | 11k |
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 Hardin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 43%
- No storm on record 27%
- Tropical storm 22%
- Winter storm 3.5%
- Flooding 1.5%
- Heat 1.1%
- Tornadoes 1.1%
- Ice storm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hardin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | Investor Owned | 403 | 305 | 2.58 | 13.9 | 469k |
| Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 466 | 347 | – | 14.2 | 88k |
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 33,891 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 →