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

Power outage history

Yoakum County Texas

3.5hours

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

216th most of 240 in Texas 46% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 13, 2015 64% of customers out · 90% back in 8.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.5h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 43hours Dec 26, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 34% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 5.5 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,573 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 Yoakum'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Yoakum, hours without power per customer

YoakumUS median countyTexas average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 6.3 ’15 0.5 ’16 1.8 ’17 2.2 ’18 3.8 ’19 4.5 ’20 4.2 ’21 2.0 ’22 3.5 ’23 2.6 ’24 5.5 ’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
Jun 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,296 64% 7.5 h 8.5 h 8.9k
Oct 27, 2020 Winter storm 663 19% 27 h 4.8 h 7.4k
Dec 26, 2015 Winter storm 532 15% 43 h 3.2 h 7.1k
Sep 1, 2018 No storm report 1,697 48% 11 h 12 h 4.7k
Mar 13, 2019 Windstorm 174 5% 26 h – 3.5k
Jan 21, 2025 No storm report 411 12% 9.0 h 8.0 h 3.5k
Mar 18, 2025 Windstorm 211 6% 21 h 18 h 2.8k
Nov 2, 2024 No storm report 1,791 50% 1.5 h 1.5 h 2.7k
Jun 22, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,737 49% 3.8 h 12 min 2.4k
Sep 8, 2019 No storm report 1,363 38% 6.2 h 5.2 h 2.3k
Apr 12, 2017 Thunderstorms 644 18% 8.5 h 1.0 h 2.3k
Mar 30, 2021 No storm report 1,101 31% 2.0 h 10 h 2.2k

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 +2h 90% by +6h

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

  • No storm on record 66%
  • Windstorm 13%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Thunderstorms 9.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Yoakum

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
Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 267 267 – 10.3 9.2k
Lea County Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 380 380 4.03 10.6 2.2k

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 3,573 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 →