Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Rains County Texas

6.0hours

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

181st most of 240 in Texas close to the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 16, 2023 37% of customers out · 90% back in 29 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.0h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.9 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 41hours Apr 12, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,322 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 Rains'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 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Rains, hours without power per customer

RainsUS median countyTexas average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 ’16 ’17 0.9 ’18 4.4 ’19 3.7 ’20 10 ’21 3.6 ’22 14 ’23 7.2 ’24 3.3 ’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 15, 2023 Heat 1,948 37% 37 h 29 h 25k
Sep 24, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,322 100% 25 h 9.2 h 25k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 3,560 67% 13 h 30 min 15k
May 28, 2024 No storm report 3,413 64% 5.2 h 3.0 h 9.7k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 2,352 44% 18 h 2.2 h 8.0k
Feb 16, 2021 Winter storm 2,152 40% 15 h 2.2 h 7.7k
Mar 4, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,489 28% 15 h 3.0 h 7.1k
Apr 12, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,417 27% 41 h 6.8 h 6.8k
May 26, 2024 No storm report 1,461 27% 4.5 h 10 h 6.6k
May 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 752 14% 13 h 9.2 h 6.2k
May 3, 2021 No storm report 1,065 20% 6.8 h 6.8 h 6.0k
May 28, 2021 No storm report 1,120 21% 8.5 h 4.8 h 5.5k

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 +8h

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

  • No storm on record 48%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Winter storm 17%
  • Heat 14%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Rains

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
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 91 66 1.35 11.9 88k
Wood County Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 934 576 4.31 12.8 36k
Texas-New Mexico Power Co Investor Owned 165 119 1.50 – –

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 5,322 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 →