Power Out Map
– 0% of Wheeler out 0 customers out in Texas

Power outage history

Wheeler County Texas

11hours

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

103rd most of 240 in Texas 1.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 27, 2015 100% of customers out · 90% back in 31 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.6 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 6.9days Nov 30, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 54% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 38 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,320 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 Wheeler'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 38 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wheeler, hours without power per customer

WheelerUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 57 ’15 2.8 ’16 2.4 ’17 10 ’18 3.4 ’19 38 ’20 7.1 ’21 3.3 ’22 2.5 ’23 4.3 ’24 23 ’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
Dec 27, 2015 Winter storm 2,320 100% 3.4 d 31 h 92k
Oct 28, 2020 Winter storm 2,320 100% 5.8 d 45 h 71k
Nov 20, 2025 No storm report 1,560 67% 17 h 6.0 h 25k
Jun 22, 2018 Thunderstorms 853 37% 39 h 29 h 13k
Nov 27, 2015 Ice storm 839 36% 2.6 d 2.9 d 12k
Mar 14, 2025 Windstorm 1,927 83% 33 h 4.8 h 9.7k
Nov 30, 2015 No storm report 365 16% 6.9 d 7.0 d 8.2k
Jun 26, 2021 No storm report 855 37% 18 h 20 h 7.3k
May 25, 2020 No storm report 1,559 67% 4.5 h 4.0 h 7.0k
May 16, 2015 Tornadoes 1,478 64% 11 h 3.8 h 4.9k
Aug 19, 2015 No storm report 1,034 45% 16 h 2.5 h 4.5k
Mar 19, 2025 No storm report 564 24% 12 h 9.2 h 4.1k

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 +6h 90% by +16h

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

  • No storm on record 46%
  • Winter storm 39%
  • Thunderstorms 8.3%
  • Windstorm 5.4%
  • Wildfire 0.9%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wheeler

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 Public Service Co Investor Owned 441 151 1.71 13.9 224k
Southwestern Electric Power Co Investor Owned 467 312 2.98 12.6 157k
Greenbelt Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 17.9 3.9k
North Plains Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 890 336 – 11.5 3.1k

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 2,320 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 →