Power outage history
Loving County Texas
270hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
41× 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 Loving's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 21.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Loving, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 33 | 100% | 2.3 d | 2.8 d | 1.8k |
| May 24, 2022 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 2.0 d | 2.0 d | 1.6k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 41 h | 47 h | 1.3k |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 33 | 100% | 44 h | 48 h | 1.3k |
| Jun 16, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 29 h | 39 h | 885 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 23 h | 35 h | 682 |
| Jul 2, 2025 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 20 h | 21 h | 660 |
| Mar 23, 2024 | No storm report | 32 | 97% | 19 h | 1.0 h | 598 |
| Jun 2, 2022 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 18 h | 18 h | 577 |
| Jan 4, 2025 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 16 h | 20 h | 512 |
| Apr 13, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 16 h | 27 h | 510 |
| Mar 17, 2023 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 14 h | 14 h | 470 |
| Nov 9, 2019 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 14 h | 16 h | 470 |
| Feb 5, 2025 | No storm report | 28 | 85% | 16 h | 21 h | 441 |
| Jun 19, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 13 h | 26 h | 400 |
| Sep 8, 2020 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 12 h | 23 h | 396 |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Windstorm | 33 | 100% | 12 h | 13 h | 380 |
| Mar 12, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 33 | 100% | 12 h | 24 h | 380 |
| Jun 8, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 11 h | 13 h | 371 |
| Aug 27, 2019 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 15 h | 24 h | 369 |
| May 3, 2025 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 11 h | 11 h | 320 |
| Feb 15, 2021 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 9.5 h | 22 h | 314 |
| Sep 28, 2018 | No storm report | 29 | 88% | 11 h | 2.8 h | 301 |
| Jul 30, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 9.8 h | 14 h | 291 |
| Jun 29, 2024 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 8.5 h | 12 h | 280 |
| Mar 27, 2022 | No storm report | 26 | 79% | 11 h | 11 h | 280 |
| Apr 23, 2019 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 8.0 h | 13 h | 260 |
| Aug 27, 2018 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 8.8 h | 20 h | 256 |
| Jul 11, 2019 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 7.2 h | 9.8 h | 239 |
| Jun 24, 2020 | No storm report | 33 | 100% | 7.2 h | 9.5 h | 225 |
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 Loving from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 87%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Windstorm 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Loving
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | Investor Owned | 232 | 67 | 1.55 | – | – |
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 33 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 →