Power outage history
Palo Pinto County Texas
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
107th most of 240 in Texas 1.7× 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 Palo Pinto's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Palo Pinto, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 6,836 | 57% | 3.4 d | 3.1 d | 250k |
| Feb 21, 2018 | No storm report | 6,025 | 50% | 3.3 d | 2.1 d | 120k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,040 | 34% | 24 h | 14 h | 34k |
| May 18, 2025 | Tornadoes | 2,045 | 17% | 24 h | 17 h | 19k |
| May 17, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 3,096 | 26% | 19 h | 13 h | 18k |
| Dec 13, 2023 | No storm report | 1,819 | 15% | 9.5 h | 10 h | 17k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,676 | 14% | 28 h | 22 h | 15k |
| Nov 12, 2025 | No storm report | 1,949 | 16% | 9.2 h | 2.5 h | 15k |
| Oct 4, 2023 | No storm report | 1,308 | 11% | 19 h | 13 h | 9.4k |
| Sep 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,478 | 21% | 15 h | 6.0 h | 9.4k |
| Jun 9, 2019 | No storm report | 2,579 | 22% | 8.0 h | 7.8 h | 9.2k |
| May 19, 2015 | Tornadoes | 1,644 | 14% | 6.0 h | 5.2 h | 8.0k |
| Oct 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,877 | 16% | 6.2 h | 5.0 h | 7.3k |
| Jan 15, 2022 | No storm report | 1,405 | 12% | 11 h | 6.8 h | 7.1k |
| May 29, 2019 | No storm report | 1,260 | 11% | 9.5 h | 5.5 h | 6.7k |
| Dec 22, 2019 | No storm report | 1,376 | 12% | 4.8 h | 1.0 h | 6.5k |
| Jun 18, 2019 | No storm report | 4,242 | 35% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 6.4k |
| Dec 31, 2020 | No storm report | 1,297 | 11% | 9.2 h | 3.0 h | 6.2k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 2,134 | 18% | 6.5 h | 5.0 h | 6.1k |
| May 22, 2021 | No storm report | 760 | 6% | 6.8 h | 7.0 h | 5.1k |
| May 13, 2022 | No storm report | 571 | 5% | 13 h | – | 5.1k |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Tornadoes | 2,774 | 23% | 5.2 h | 4.5 h | 4.9k |
| Aug 6, 2021 | No storm report | 1,635 | 14% | 3.2 h | 1.8 h | 4.8k |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Tornadoes | 1,390 | 12% | 10 h | 7.2 h | 4.8k |
| Apr 28, 2021 | No storm report | 1,493 | 12% | 6.8 h | 3.5 h | 4.7k |
| May 6, 2023 | No storm report | 1,622 | 14% | 5.2 h | 30 min | 4.6k |
| Apr 26, 2023 | No storm report | 1,846 | 15% | 4.8 h | 3.0 h | 4.4k |
| Jul 16, 2019 | No storm report | 1,222 | 10% | 8.0 h | 3.5 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 9, 2021 | No storm report | 2,339 | 20% | 6.2 h | 2.2 h | 4.1k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | No storm report | 3,034 | 25% | 6.0 h | 30 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.
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 Palo Pinto from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 55%
- Winter storm 29%
- Thunderstorms 10.0%
- Tornadoes 3.5%
- Heat 2.1%
- Wildfire 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Palo Pinto
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX) | Cooperative | 203 | 132 | 1.67 | 15.1 | 118k |
| United Electric Coop Service Inc | Cooperative | 122 | 72 | 1.23 | 13.9 | 91k |
| Fort Belknap Electric Coop Inc | TX | – | – | – | 10.2 | 52k |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | Investor Owned | 165 | 119 | 1.50 | – | – |
| 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 11,965 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 →