Power Out Map
– 0% of Val Verde out 0 customers out in Texas

Power outage history

Val Verde County Texas

11hours

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

106th most of 240 in Texas 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 68% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.6 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 5.2days Feb 14, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 18,757 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 Val Verde'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 2.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Val Verde, hours without power per customer

Val VerdeUS median countyTexas average
0 5 10 15 20 25 8.1 ’15 ’17 4.7 ’18 3.0 ’19 8.1 ’20 49 ’21 4.9 ’22 4.9 ’23 8.1 ’24 7.4 ’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 14, 2021 Winter storm 12,769 68% 5.2 d 2.1 d 845k
Apr 27, 2020 Thunderstorms 10,673 57% 29 h 14 h 73k
May 25, 2015 Thunderstorms 10,107 54% 10 h 4.5 h 50k
Jun 22, 2015 No storm report 11,428 61% 7.2 h 6.5 h 46k
Mar 20, 2018 No storm report 18,455 98% 4.0 h 30 min 28k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 10,056 54% 2.0 h 1.8 h 19k
Jun 22, 2021 No storm report 3,602 19% 11 h 9.0 h 15k
May 30, 2015 Thunderstorms 3,836 20% 8.8 h 7.2 h 14k
Dec 14, 2024 No storm report 6,551 35% 2.2 h 2.0 h 13k
Mar 2, 2023 No storm report 4,540 24% 4.8 h 3.5 h 11k
Aug 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,862 10% 11 h 9.8 h 11k
Jun 4, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,035 16% 5.2 h 3.5 h 10.0k

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

  • Winter storm 60%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Thunderstorms 9.7%
  • Wildfire 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Val Verde

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
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 195 134 – 18.3 9.4k
Southwest Texas Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.7 5.9k
AEP Texas Central Company Investor Owned 205 155 1.76 – –

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 18,757 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 →