Power outage history
Lamar County Texas
3.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
213th most of 240 in Texas 43% 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 Lamar'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 6.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lamar, 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 | 5,072 | 18% | 3.1 d | 8.8 h | 118k |
| Oct 20, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 6,244 | 22% | 27 h | 22 h | 62k |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Tornadoes | 1,764 | 6% | 32 h | 28 h | 48k |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,665 | 10% | 19 h | 17 h | 30k |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,457 | 9% | 24 h | 3.8 h | 25k |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,441 | 5% | 30 h | 16 h | 24k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | No storm report | 3,118 | 11% | 14 h | 13 h | 15k |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Ice storm | 602 | 2% | 40 h | – | 15k |
| Jul 4, 2015 | No storm report | 9,573 | 34% | 2.2 h | 30 min | 14k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,172 | 8% | 20 h | 20 h | 12k |
| Jul 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,590 | 6% | 13 h | 14 h | 7.7k |
| Sep 3, 2023 | No storm report | 2,250 | 8% | 6.0 h | 6.2 h | 6.4k |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,816 | 7% | 4.5 h | 2.5 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 719 | 3% | 11 h | – | 5.6k |
| Apr 4, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,680 | 10% | 3.2 h | 1.8 h | 5.3k |
| May 1, 2019 | No storm report | 2,797 | 10% | 5.2 h | 3.0 h | 5.3k |
| May 15, 2022 | No storm report | 931 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 5.0k |
| Nov 11, 2020 | No storm report | 1,228 | 4% | 4.0 h | – | 4.2k |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Heat | 701 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 4.2k |
| Oct 22, 2022 | No storm report | 598 | 2% | 8.2 h | – | 4.1k |
| Jun 7, 2018 | No storm report | 5,610 | 20% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 4.0k |
| Jan 3, 2023 | No storm report | 1,118 | 4% | 3.5 h | – | 3.9k |
| Jun 13, 2023 | No storm report | 1,495 | 5% | 2.5 h | 9.8 h | 3.7k |
| Jul 10, 2019 | No storm report | 2,718 | 10% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 3.7k |
| Jul 1, 2022 | No storm report | 709 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 3.7k |
| May 13, 2023 | No storm report | 929 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 3.7k |
| Jun 4, 2015 | No storm report | 3,449 | 12% | 2.0 h | 9.8 h | 3.5k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 982 | 4% | 5.2 h | – | 3.4k |
| Mar 11, 2015 | No storm report | 1,025 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 3.3k |
| Jun 14, 2020 | No storm report | 1,613 | 6% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 3.2k |
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 Lamar from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 34%
- Winter storm 29%
- Thunderstorms 23%
- Tornadoes 8.5%
- Ice storm 2.7%
- Heat 2.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lamar
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamar County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 368 | 260 | 2.67 | 13.4 | 13k |
| Fannin County Electric Coop | Cooperative | 1,002 | 1,002 | 4.24 | 16.3 | 12k |
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | Investor Owned | 232 | 67 | 1.55 | – | – |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | Investor Owned | 165 | 119 | 1.50 | – | – |
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
- Red River 10 h
- Delta 7.9 h
- Bryan, OK 7.7 h
- Fannin 7.1 h
- Choctaw, OK 5.5 h
- Lamar (this county) 3.8 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 27,882 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 →