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

Power outage history

Jones County Texas

13hours

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

89th most of 240 in Texas 2.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 15, 2021 90% of customers out · 90% back in 2.7 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.3 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 3.1days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 74% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 37 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,201 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 Jones'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 37 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Jones, hours without power per customer

JonesUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 40 50 1.8 ’15 ’17 21 ’18 4.2 ’19 7.6 ’20 37 ’21 4.0 ’22 18 ’23 4.9 ’24 9.2 ’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 15, 2021 Winter storm 4,702 90% 3.1 d 2.7 d 174k
May 2, 2018 Thunderstorms 4,626 89% 22 h 21 h 75k
Jun 22, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,693 71% 27 h 23 h 50k
May 25, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,027 39% 15 h 7.0 h 8.6k
Jul 10, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,193 23% 8.0 h 48 min 8.6k
Oct 28, 2020 Ice storm 1,908 37% 10 h 12 min 8.5k
Jun 24, 2023 No storm report 810 16% 22 h 19 h 8.1k
Mar 13, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,309 44% 6.5 h 3.2 h 7.9k
Jun 8, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,253 24% 21 h 10 h 7.5k
Apr 21, 2018 No storm report 903 17% 7.0 h 4.8 h 5.4k
Nov 26, 2018 No storm report 1,888 36% 2.8 h 2.8 h 5.2k
Aug 23, 2024 No storm report 622 12% 8.5 h 5.2 h 4.8k

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 +4h 90% by +8h

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

  • Winter storm 36%
  • Thunderstorms 35%
  • No storm on record 26%
  • Ice storm 2.2%
  • Windstorm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Jones

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
Taylor Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 364 309 3.54 16.1 19k
Big Country Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 1,182 – – 13.3 9.5k
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

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 5,201 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 →