Power Out Map
– 0% of Red River out 0 customers out in Texas

Power outage history

Red River County Texas

10hours

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

116th most of 240 in Texas 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 41% of customers out · 90% back in 45 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.3 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 3.5days Mar 4, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 81% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 35 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,161 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 Red River'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.

Red River, hours without power per customer

Red RiverUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 40 2.3 ’15 ’16 ’17 2.4 ’18 3.3 ’19 3.2 ’20 35 ’21 7.6 ’22 16 ’23 4.0 ’24 9.1 ’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 2,938 41% 3.1 d 45 h 209k
Jan 31, 2023 Winter storm 2,173 30% 2.4 d 2.3 d 52k
Mar 4, 2025 Tornadoes 1,055 15% 3.5 d 5.5 h 28k
Nov 4, 2022 Tornadoes 3,308 46% 28 h 22 h 26k
Jan 9, 2025 Winter storm 662 9% 44 h 18 h 15k
Mar 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,574 22% 21 h 9.8 h 12k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,179 16% 14 h 11 h 11k
Jun 16, 2023 No storm report 699 10% 24 h 13 h 9.9k
May 26, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,321 18% 19 h 8.2 h 7.3k
Jul 13, 2022 Heat 673 9% 10 h 10 h 6.8k
Jun 14, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,222 17% 17 h 8.0 h 6.0k
Jul 10, 2019 Heat 1,853 26% 10 h 3.8 h 6.0k

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 +10h 90% by +14h

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

  • Winter storm 54%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Tornadoes 11%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Heat 4.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Red River

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
Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 2,614 1,022 5.37 13.3 35k
Lamar County Elec Coop Assn Cooperative 368 260 2.67 13.4 13k
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Investor Owned 232 67 1.55 – –
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 7,161 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 →