Power outage history
Upshur County Texas
31hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
17th most of 240 in Texas 4.7× 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 Upshur'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 4.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Upshur, 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 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 18,224 | 100% | 7.5 d | 5.8 d | 1.5M |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 12,738 | 70% | 3.9 d | 2.8 d | 442k |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Tornadoes | 7,728 | 42% | 3.1 d | 2.0 d | 196k |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Tornadoes | 3,077 | 17% | 3.7 d | 2.8 d | 141k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 7,633 | 42% | 2.5 d | 36 h | 113k |
| May 8, 2019 | No storm report | 6,654 | 37% | 2.2 d | 45 h | 100k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 5,309 | 29% | 42 h | 34 h | 90k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,515 | 25% | 2.1 d | 19 h | 62k |
| Jun 5, 2024 | No storm report | 3,388 | 19% | 34 h | 28 h | 54k |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,456 | 19% | 30 h | 24 h | 48k |
| May 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,935 | 27% | 16 h | 14 h | 44k |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,752 | 26% | 23 h | 12 h | 42k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | Heat | 9,044 | 50% | 8.5 h | 3.2 h | 40k |
| Mar 19, 2024 | No storm report | 6,333 | 35% | 7.0 h | 4.8 h | 39k |
| Nov 4, 2022 | No storm report | 6,207 | 34% | 24 h | 13 h | 36k |
| May 28, 2017 | No storm report | 1,928 | 11% | 2.0 d | 44 h | 35k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,681 | 20% | 24 h | 7.2 h | 31k |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Winter storm | 2,159 | 12% | 20 h | 16 h | 31k |
| Apr 9, 2024 | No storm report | 4,190 | 23% | 32 h | 12 h | 26k |
| May 28, 2024 | No storm report | 2,785 | 15% | 31 h | 18 h | 25k |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,067 | 17% | 26 h | 20 h | 22k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Windstorm | 2,870 | 16% | 26 h | 23 h | 21k |
| May 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,244 | 12% | 19 h | 16 h | 20k |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Heat | 2,425 | 13% | 20 h | 14 h | 18k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,981 | 16% | 8.2 h | 48 min | 17k |
| Jun 23, 2023 | No storm report | 1,933 | 11% | 20 h | 20 h | 17k |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Heat | 2,035 | 11% | 8.8 h | 5.2 h | 17k |
| Dec 18, 2021 | No storm report | 3,847 | 21% | 5.2 h | 3.8 h | 16k |
| Jan 16, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,262 | 7% | 18 h | 10 h | 16k |
| Jun 3, 2024 | No storm report | 1,103 | 6% | 25 h | 7.8 h | 15k |
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 Upshur from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 58%
- No storm on record 24%
- Tornadoes 8.1%
- Winter storm 3.6%
- Heat 2.8%
- Tropical storm 2.3%
- Windstorm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Upshur
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 |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | Cooperative | 1,332 | 714 | 5.60 | 12.7 | 45k |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 934 | 576 | 4.31 | 12.8 | 36k |
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 18,224 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 →