Power outage history
Van Zandt County Texas
18hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
49th most of 240 in Texas 2.7× 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 Van Zandt's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Van Zandt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 23,878 | 100% | 4.5 d | 3.2 d | 841k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | Tornadoes | 12,230 | 51% | 3.7 d | 2.8 d | 467k |
| Feb 14, 2021 | Winter storm | 12,761 | 53% | 3.5 d | 11 h | 210k |
| May 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 18,490 | 77% | 28 h | 18 h | 177k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 12,541 | 53% | 2.1 d | 26 h | 137k |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Ice storm | 3,711 | 16% | 3.4 d | 31 h | 102k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | Heat | 18,449 | 77% | 10 h | 4.8 h | 87k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 6,757 | 28% | 38 h | 28 h | 74k |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,738 | 16% | 2.1 d | 45 h | 71k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,249 | 18% | 30 h | 24 h | 52k |
| Sep 24, 2023 | No storm report | 6,491 | 27% | 22 h | 13 h | 43k |
| May 29, 2019 | Tornadoes | 4,747 | 20% | 16 h | 14 h | 38k |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,557 | 23% | 26 h | 13 h | 35k |
| May 24, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,655 | 15% | 23 h | 16 h | 26k |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,620 | 19% | 16 h | 8.2 h | 24k |
| Jan 3, 2018 | No storm report | 3,468 | 15% | 11 h | 8.0 h | 23k |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Flooding | 2,508 | 11% | 21 h | 8.2 h | 22k |
| Jul 5, 2020 | No storm report | 4,732 | 20% | 12 h | 7.2 h | 22k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | No storm report | 2,598 | 11% | 14 h | 13 h | 20k |
| May 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,341 | 18% | 18 h | 11 h | 19k |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,920 | 12% | 17 h | 16 h | 18k |
| Jun 7, 2021 | No storm report | 4,045 | 17% | 5.0 h | 1.2 h | 17k |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,705 | 7% | 11 h | 6.5 h | 16k |
| Mar 8, 2024 | No storm report | 4,148 | 17% | 5.0 h | 1.5 h | 16k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | No storm report | 3,535 | 15% | 5.0 h | 4.0 h | 16k |
| Mar 29, 2022 | No storm report | 4,228 | 18% | 6.2 h | 4.5 h | 15k |
| Mar 12, 2025 | No storm report | 2,428 | 10% | 6.5 h | 11 h | 14k |
| May 16, 2023 | No storm report | 1,407 | 6% | 13 h | 13 h | 14k |
| Apr 18, 2015 | No storm report | 1,562 | 7% | 15 h | 13 h | 14k |
| May 11, 2015 | Tornadoes | 999 | 4% | 22 h | – | 13k |
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 Van Zandt from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 51%
- No storm on record 31%
- Winter storm 7.6%
- Heat 4.6%
- Ice storm 3.4%
- Tornadoes 1.9%
- Flooding 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Van Zandt
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 |
| Trinity Valley Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 179 | 142 | 2.36 | 12.2 | 82k |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 934 | 576 | 4.31 | 12.8 | 36k |
| 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 23,878 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 →