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

Power outage history

King County Texas

48hours

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

7.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 6, 2025 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 48h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 40.0 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 12hours Jun 7, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 18% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 48 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 119 ORNL customer model · 1 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 King'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 48 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

King, hours without power per customer

KingUS median countyTexas average
0 5 10 15 20 25 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 48 ’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
Jun 6, 2025 No storm report 119 100% 6.2 h 6.2 h 744
May 25, 2025 Thunderstorms 119 100% 6.5 h 14 h 518
Jun 8, 2025 No storm report 119 100% 4.5 h 2.2 h 446
Jun 7, 2018 No storm report 33 28% 12 h 12 min 368
Mar 8, 2025 No storm report 119 100% 3.0 h 3.0 h 357
May 29, 2025 No storm report 63 53% 5.2 h 7.0 h 331
Nov 12, 2025 No storm report 39 33% 5.2 h 5.2 h 205
May 26, 2025 Thunderstorms 92 77% 2.0 h 2.0 h 184
Nov 9, 2024 No storm report 89 75% 2.0 h 2.0 h 178
Mar 4, 2025 Windstorm 119 100% 2.2 h 30 min 152
Jul 26, 2025 No storm report 41 34% 3.2 h 6.0 h 133
Apr 28, 2025 No storm report 57 48% 2.2 h 2.2 h 127

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 +4h

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

  • No storm on record 82%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Windstorm 2.9%
  • Ice storm 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving King

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
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX) Cooperative 203 132 1.67 15.1 118k
South Plains Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 11.0 59k
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+

All Texas counties →

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 119 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 →