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

Power outage history

Marion County Texas

46hours

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

5th most of 240 in Texas 7.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 16, 2023 100% of customers out · 90% back in 7.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 46h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 16.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.6days Jun 16, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 62% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 6.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,005 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Marion'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

2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Marion, hours without power per customer

MarionUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 2.8 ’15 2.4 ’16 ’17 ’18 32 ’19 18 ’20 27 ’21 27 ’22 163 ’23 37 ’24 19 ’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 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,005 100% 8.6 d 7.4 d 679k
May 8, 2019 No storm report 3,398 68% 2.0 d 42 h 50k
Jun 19, 2019 No storm report 4,362 87% 2.4 d 34 h 42k
Apr 12, 2020 No storm report 3,540 71% 3.0 d 22 h 42k
Jul 16, 2023 Heat 4,628 92% 28 h 17 h 40k
Jul 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,882 78% 24 h 9.5 h 35k
Apr 28, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,325 46% 2.0 d 42 h 34k
Jun 5, 2024 No storm report 2,384 48% 16 h 9.8 h 28k
Mar 4, 2025 No storm report 943 19% 2.4 d 26 h 22k
Mar 21, 2022 Tornadoes 957 19% 3.8 d 2.5 d 20k
Feb 16, 2021 Winter storm 1,857 37% 11 h 5.5 h 15k
Jun 23, 2019 Thunderstorms 4,353 87% 19 h 5.5 h 15k

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 +22h

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

  • Thunderstorms 51%
  • No storm on record 38%
  • Heat 6.3%
  • Winter storm 2.1%
  • Tornadoes 1.7%
  • Tropical storm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Marion

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 Electric Power Co Investor Owned 467 312 2.98 12.6 157k
Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp Cooperative 1,332 714 5.60 12.7 45k

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 5,005 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 →