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

Power outage history

Mitchell County Texas

13hours

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

90th most of 240 in Texas 2.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 54% of customers out · 90% back in 31 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 13h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.3 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 3.0days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 57% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 35 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,856 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 Mitchell'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 35 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Mitchell, hours without power per customer

MitchellUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 40 6.7 ’15 ’17 14 ’18 7.5 ’19 8.0 ’20 35 ’21 4.3 ’22 16 ’23 6.6 ’24 15 ’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 15, 2021 Winter storm 2,611 54% 3.0 d 31 h 106k
Jun 8, 2018 Thunderstorms 3,144 65% 2.4 d 21 h 46k
Oct 3, 2023 Flooding 1,918 40% 2.2 d 23 h 26k
Jan 3, 2015 Ice storm 1,498 31% 37 h 9.5 h 17k
Oct 25, 2021 No storm report 1,656 34% 14 h 16 h 11k
Mar 4, 2025 Windstorm 1,743 36% 16 h 6.0 h 11k
Feb 14, 2021 Winter storm 1,624 33% 16 h 3.0 h 6.5k
Sep 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,475 30% 13 h 4.0 h 6.2k
Mar 14, 2025 Windstorm 1,251 26% 11 h 3.5 h 6.1k
Jun 26, 2021 Thunderstorms 771 16% 17 h 5.5 h 5.9k
Mar 13, 2019 Windstorm 314 6% 29 h 7.0 h 4.3k
May 5, 2015 No storm report 570 12% 8.5 h 48 min 4.1k

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 +10h

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

  • No storm on record 43%
  • Winter storm 26%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Flooding 6.7%
  • Windstorm 4.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Mitchell

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
Taylor Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 364 309 3.54 16.1 19k
Concho Valley Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 364 364 3.73 13.5 12k
Big Country Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 1,182 – – 13.3 9.5k
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.

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 4,856 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 →