Power outage history
Hockley County Texas
5.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
200th most of 240 in Texas 24% 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 Hockley'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 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hockley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,318 | 67% | 2.4 d | 39 h | 177k |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Winter storm | 3,244 | 30% | 3.9 d | 31 h | 42k |
| May 17, 2022 | No storm report | 5,473 | 50% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 14k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,968 | 37% | 4.0 h | 3.0 h | 11k |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Tornadoes | 1,462 | 13% | 13 h | 10 h | 11k |
| Jul 4, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,502 | 32% | 15 h | 7.2 h | 10k |
| May 31, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,722 | 34% | 9.0 h | 3.8 h | 8.2k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,724 | 44% | 5.8 h | 48 min | 7.9k |
| Aug 16, 2025 | No storm report | 5,134 | 47% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 7.5k |
| Jul 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,086 | 28% | 10 h | 1.2 h | 6.0k |
| Nov 17, 2024 | Flooding | 1,600 | 15% | 3.0 h | 4.0 h | 4.8k |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,768 | 35% | 4.0 h | 1.2 h | 4.5k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 524 | 5% | 22 h | – | 4.4k |
| Dec 26, 2015 | Winter storm | 627 | 6% | 12 h | 6.8 h | 4.2k |
| Mar 6, 2021 | No storm report | 2,845 | 26% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 3.5k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 4,100 | 38% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 3.3k |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,600 | 15% | 4.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.8k |
| Aug 23, 2022 | No storm report | 184 | 2% | 15 h | – | 2.7k |
| Jul 3, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 929 | 9% | 3.0 h | 48 min | 2.7k |
| Jul 2, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 980 | 9% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 2.7k |
| Jun 17, 2020 | No storm report | 867 | 8% | 9.2 h | 8.2 h | 2.6k |
| Nov 3, 2020 | No storm report | 5,022 | 46% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 2.6k |
| May 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,603 | 15% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 2.4k |
| May 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,338 | 12% | 7.0 h | 30 min | 2.2k |
| Apr 29, 2018 | No storm report | 534 | 5% | 6.2 h | – | 2.2k |
| Jun 13, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,085 | 10% | 3.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.0k |
| Feb 3, 2025 | No storm report | 2,269 | 21% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 1.9k |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Winter storm | 732 | 7% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 11, 2016 | No storm report | 884 | 8% | 5.0 h | 1.5 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 29, 2025 | No storm report | 889 | 8% | 2.2 h | 12 h | 1.9k |
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 Hockley from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 56%
- No storm on record 22%
- Winter storm 15%
- Tornadoes 3.4%
- Windstorm 2.7%
- Flooding 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hockley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | Investor Owned | 441 | 151 | 1.71 | 13.9 | 224k |
| South Plains Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 11.0 | 59k |
| Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 267 | 267 | – | 10.3 | 9.2k |
| Lamb County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 43 | 43 | – | 9.8 | 2.8k |
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 10,853 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 →