Power outage history
Ochiltree County Texas
9.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
125th most of 240 in Texas 1.4× 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 Ochiltree's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Ochiltree, 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 15, 2023 | Tornadoes | 4,973 | 100% | 12.2 d | 2.9 d | 237k |
| Aug 26, 2024 | No storm report | 4,288 | 86% | 8.0 h | 8.0 h | 32k |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,894 | 38% | 35 h | 7.8 h | 18k |
| Jun 9, 2015 | No storm report | 4,162 | 84% | 4.0 h | – | 9.0k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | No storm report | 1,652 | 33% | 29 h | 11 h | 8.3k |
| Jan 8, 2025 | No storm report | 4,292 | 86% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 6.5k |
| Jul 18, 2023 | No storm report | 4,683 | 94% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 6.4k |
| Dec 13, 2015 | No storm report | 1,884 | 38% | 10 h | 4.0 h | 5.7k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Wildfire | 292 | 6% | 25 h | 20 h | 5.3k |
| May 5, 2018 | No storm report | 2,477 | 50% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 4.6k |
| Mar 27, 2018 | No storm report | 1,885 | 38% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 3.5k |
| Aug 20, 2025 | No storm report | 1,554 | 31% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 3.5k |
| Sep 19, 2025 | No storm report | 2,370 | 48% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 3.4k |
| May 7, 2018 | No storm report | 2,536 | 51% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 3.4k |
| Sep 27, 2025 | No storm report | 2,366 | 48% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 2.3k |
| Oct 29, 2017 | No storm report | 1,629 | 33% | 1.5 h | 1.8 h | 2.2k |
| Mar 11, 2019 | No storm report | 1,568 | 32% | 3.2 h | 1.5 h | 1.9k |
| Feb 23, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,260 | 25% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.6k |
| Jul 21, 2015 | No storm report | 305 | 6% | 7.8 h | 2.0 h | 1.6k |
| Aug 31, 2015 | No storm report | 942 | 19% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 1.6k |
| Jul 2, 2015 | No storm report | 264 | 5% | 5.8 h | 5.2 h | 1.4k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 493 | 10% | 4.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.4k |
| Nov 26, 2019 | Wildfire | 299 | 6% | 5.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.4k |
| Aug 5, 2015 | No storm report | 3,147 | 63% | 48 min | 12 min | 1.2k |
| May 17, 2017 | No storm report | 791 | 16% | 2.5 h | 3.0 h | 1.1k |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 195 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Windstorm | 182 | 4% | 16 h | – | 1.0k |
| Jan 21, 2025 | No storm report | 2,003 | 40% | 30 min | 30 min | 1.0k |
| Sep 29, 2018 | No storm report | 1,256 | 25% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 982 |
| Jul 31, 2015 | No storm report | 1,003 | 20% | 1.2 h | 30 min | 944 |
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.
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 Ochiltree from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 66%
- No storm on record 24%
- Winter storm 5.3%
- Wildfire 1.9%
- Windstorm 1.7%
- Thunderstorms 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Ochiltree
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
- Roberts 28 h
- Hansford 13 h
- Ochiltree (this county) 9.4 h
- Lipscomb 9.1 h
- Beaver, OK 8.4 h
- Texas, OK 1.2 h
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 4,973 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 →