Power outage history
Lamb County Texas
1.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
233rd most of 240 in Texas 75% 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 Lamb's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lamb, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,858 | 22% | 13 h | 12 h | 21k |
| Jun 26, 2017 | No storm report | 2,769 | 33% | 7.2 h | 5.5 h | 16k |
| Nov 27, 2015 | No storm report | 3,604 | 43% | 13 h | 8.0 h | 13k |
| Dec 26, 2015 | Winter storm | 834 | 10% | 23 h | 11 h | 11k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,336 | 16% | 11 h | 4.2 h | 9.4k |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Windstorm | 3,466 | 42% | 11 h | 3.2 h | 6.4k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Windstorm | 874 | 10% | 15 h | 12 h | 5.4k |
| May 25, 2022 | No storm report | 1,695 | 20% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 4.9k |
| Dec 30, 2023 | No storm report | 1,699 | 20% | 2.5 h | 12 h | 3.8k |
| May 30, 2021 | No storm report | 1,702 | 20% | 4.8 h | 1.2 h | 2.7k |
| Sep 15, 2016 | No storm report | 1,263 | 15% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 2.7k |
| Jul 22, 2024 | No storm report | 1,180 | 14% | 2.0 h | 2.2 h | 2.4k |
| May 25, 2021 | No storm report | 652 | 8% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 2.3k |
| Nov 5, 2019 | No storm report | 1,713 | 21% | 1.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.8k |
| May 9, 2019 | No storm report | 663 | 8% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 1.7k |
| Sep 17, 2017 | No storm report | 707 | 8% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.7k |
| Nov 29, 2015 | No storm report | 669 | 8% | 2.8 h | 12 min | 1.6k |
| Dec 13, 2018 | Windstorm | 621 | 7% | 2.0 h | 4.5 h | 1.2k |
| Feb 7, 2024 | No storm report | 2,357 | 28% | 30 min | 1.8 h | 1.2k |
| Nov 12, 2022 | No storm report | 389 | 5% | 3.0 h | – | 1.2k |
| May 28, 2024 | No storm report | 516 | 6% | 2.2 h | 14 h | 1.2k |
| May 27, 2021 | No storm report | 513 | 6% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jun 7, 2019 | No storm report | 567 | 7% | 3.8 h | 1.5 h | 1.1k |
| Feb 21, 2023 | No storm report | 1,140 | 14% | 1.2 h | 11 h | 972 |
| Jun 29, 2018 | No storm report | 295 | 4% | 8.2 h | – | 957 |
| Sep 2, 2019 | No storm report | 612 | 7% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 900 |
| Jun 13, 2025 | No storm report | 648 | 8% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 809 |
| Mar 23, 2016 | Windstorm | 368 | 4% | 2.8 h | – | 801 |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 610 | 7% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 762 |
| Dec 16, 2017 | No storm report | 518 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 696 |
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 Lamb from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 43%
- Windstorm 28%
- Winter storm 26%
- Thunderstorms 2.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lamb
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 |
| Bailey County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | – | – | – | 9.8 | 3.5k |
| 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 8,331 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 →