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

Power outage history

Menard County Texas

17hours

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

53rd most of 240 in Texas 2.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 15, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 7.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.1 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 3.3days Feb 14, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 51% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,142 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 Menard'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Menard, hours without power per customer

MenardUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 40 ’15 ’17 8.2 ’18 13 ’19 10 ’20 60 ’21 7.6 ’22 12 ’23 13 ’24 12 ’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
Feb 14, 2021 Winter storm 1,142 100% 3.3 d 7.2 h 54k
Feb 10, 2019 No storm report 1,142 100% 4.5 h 10 h 5.1k
Dec 31, 2020 Winter storm 340 30% 31 h 13 h 4.2k
Jul 22, 2024 No storm report 292 26% 12 h 48 min 2.6k
Mar 16, 2020 No storm report 800 70% 14 h 2.0 h 2.6k
May 26, 2025 Thunderstorms 818 72% 6.0 h 2.8 h 1.9k
May 16, 2024 Thunderstorms 154 13% 14 h 14 h 1.6k
Mar 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 229 20% 7.8 h 19 h 1.6k
Jul 21, 2024 No storm report 329 29% 7.0 h 3.0 h 1.6k
Jun 29, 2021 No storm report 810 71% 3.0 h 10 h 1.6k
Jun 4, 2018 No storm report 890 78% 6.0 h 2.5 h 1.4k
Mar 29, 2021 No storm report 1,142 100% 1.2 h 7.5 h 1.4k

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

  • No storm on record 49%
  • Winter storm 43%
  • Thunderstorms 6.5%
  • Flooding 2.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Menard

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
Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 90 78 1.16 12.8 421k
Central Texas Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 220 193 1.97 12.2 40k
Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.7 5.9k
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Investor Owned 232 67 1.55 – –
AEP Texas North Company Investor Owned 133 106 1.41 – –

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 1,142 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 →