Power outage history
Texas County Missouri
6.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
38th most of 110 in Missouri close to 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 Texas'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 10 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Texas, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2023 | Winter storm | 4,202 | 51% | 39 h | 15 h | 39k |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,974 | 24% | 20 h | 18 h | 18k |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,854 | 23% | 21 h | 17 h | 16k |
| Jan 5, 2025 | Ice storm | 1,255 | 15% | 2.2 d | 45 h | 14k |
| May 27, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,630 | 20% | 25 h | 7.2 h | 12k |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 1,478 | 18% | 20 h | 17 h | 11k |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Flooding | 1,247 | 15% | 37 h | 4.0 h | 10k |
| Jan 12, 2019 | Ice storm | 1,721 | 21% | 13 h | 5.0 h | 10k |
| Sep 5, 2020 | No storm report | 1,679 | 20% | 5.5 h | 3.8 h | 9.2k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,921 | 23% | 12 h | 8.2 h | 8.5k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,837 | 22% | 11 h | 7.0 h | 7.5k |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,480 | 18% | 13 h | 7.2 h | 7.4k |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Tornadoes | 777 | 9% | 16 h | 10 h | 6.6k |
| May 18, 2019 | No storm report | 797 | 10% | 12 h | 7.5 h | 6.4k |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,463 | 18% | 8.2 h | 6.5 h | 4.8k |
| May 4, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,396 | 17% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 4.5k |
| Aug 27, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 755 | 9% | 9.2 h | 7.0 h | 4.1k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | No storm report | 1,060 | 13% | 5.8 h | 4.5 h | 4.1k |
| Aug 6, 2021 | No storm report | 1,415 | 17% | 2.8 h | 1.2 h | 3.8k |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Ice storm | 1,136 | 14% | 7.5 h | 3.2 h | 3.5k |
| May 19, 2017 | No storm report | 1,048 | 13% | 5.2 h | 48 min | 3.3k |
| Apr 28, 2020 | No storm report | 1,657 | 20% | 6.5 h | 5.2 h | 3.3k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,027 | 13% | 5.5 h | 2.2 h | 2.7k |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 893 | 11% | 4.5 h | 2.8 h | 2.6k |
| May 26, 2024 | Flooding | 322 | 4% | 21 h | – | 2.6k |
| Oct 22, 2017 | No storm report | 911 | 11% | 2.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.0k |
| May 21, 2019 | No storm report | 366 | 4% | 7.8 h | – | 2.0k |
| Feb 22, 2018 | No storm report | 544 | 7% | 9.2 h | 1.5 h | 2.0k |
| Apr 20, 2017 | No storm report | 1,586 | 19% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 2.0k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 552 | 7% | 7.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.9k |
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 Texas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 42%
- Thunderstorms 25%
- Winter storm 12%
- Ice storm 8.6%
- Tornadoes 4.8%
- Flooding 4.7%
- Tropical storm 3.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Texas
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Missouri territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE-MA-NO Electric Coop | MO | – | – | – | 9.1 | 85k |
| Intercounty Electric Coop Assn | Cooperative | 707 | 251 | 3.10 | 13.0 | 30k |
| Howell-Oregon Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.1 | 23k |
| City of Houston | MO | – | – | – | – | 9.4k |
| City of Cabool | MO | – | – | – | – | 8.9k |
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 8,217 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 →