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

Power outage history

Lipscomb County Texas

9.1hours

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

128th most of 240 in Texas 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 28, 2020 73% of customers out · 90% back in 3.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.1h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.8 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 33hours Mar 22, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 48% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 17 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,445 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 Lipscomb'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 17 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lipscomb, hours without power per customer

LipscombUS median countyTexas average
0 5 10 15 20 7.4 ’15 1.8 ’16 14 ’17 17 ’18 7.9 ’19 11 ’20 8.9 ’21 14 ’22 3.3 ’23 6.3 ’24 4.4 ’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
Oct 28, 2020 Winter storm 1,059 73% 16 h 3.2 h 14k
Mar 22, 2022 Winter storm 1,053 73% 33 h 10 h 12k
Jun 24, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,102 76% 7.8 h 48 min 5.4k
Jun 21, 2017 No storm report 1,084 75% 4.0 h 4.5 h 4.3k
Oct 11, 2017 No storm report 1,073 74% 4.0 h 1.2 h 4.3k
Jan 11, 2018 No storm report 706 49% 5.5 h 5.5 h 3.9k
Mar 19, 2025 Windstorm 489 34% 6.5 h 2.5 h 3.2k
Jul 2, 2015 No storm report 811 56% 4.2 h 1.5 h 2.9k
Dec 13, 2015 No storm report 1,445 100% 4.0 h 1.8 h 2.9k
Apr 30, 2017 No storm report 664 46% 8.0 h 2.2 h 2.8k
May 10, 2017 No storm report 1,085 75% 2.5 h 2.2 h 2.5k
Jul 27, 2018 No storm report 1,068 74% 2.5 h 1.0 h 2.5k

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

  • No storm on record 52%
  • Winter storm 29%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Windstorm 5.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lipscomb

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
North Plains Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 890 336 – 11.5 3.1k

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 1,445 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 →