Power outage history
Creek County Oklahoma
6.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
40th most of 75 in Oklahoma 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 Creek'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 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Creek, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 19,611 | 46% | 5.0 d | 3.6 d | 835k |
| May 26, 2019 | Tornadoes | 15,561 | 36% | 3.6 d | 2.6 d | 407k |
| Jul 14, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 11,800 | 27% | 3.3 d | 1.5 h | 230k |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Ice storm | 3,280 | 8% | 2.5 d | 2.4 d | 96k |
| May 24, 2025 | No storm report | 5,252 | 12% | 15 h | 13 h | 37k |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Heat | 5,093 | 12% | 16 h | 13 h | 37k |
| Nov 26, 2019 | No storm report | 2,859 | 7% | 12 h | 11 h | 32k |
| Aug 5, 2017 | No storm report | 1,356 | 3% | 30 h | – | 31k |
| Nov 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,217 | 10% | 18 h | 16 h | 28k |
| Jul 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,311 | 8% | 12 h | 9.2 h | 21k |
| Apr 22, 2020 | No storm report | 1,989 | 5% | 12 h | – | 20k |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,230 | 5% | 18 h | 23 h | 20k |
| Apr 21, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,147 | 5% | 18 h | – | 19k |
| May 24, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,308 | 5% | 19 h | 21 h | 18k |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Heat | 3,799 | 9% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 18k |
| Jun 24, 2018 | No storm report | 4,378 | 10% | 6.0 h | 2.2 h | 17k |
| May 18, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,010 | 9% | 7.0 h | 4.0 h | 15k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Wildfire | 3,200 | 7% | 13 h | 15 h | 15k |
| Jun 30, 2021 | No storm report | 3,415 | 8% | 9.8 h | 7.8 h | 15k |
| Dec 13, 2020 | Winter storm | 2,841 | 7% | 9.2 h | 8.0 h | 15k |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,369 | 3% | 11 h | – | 13k |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Tornadoes | 1,337 | 3% | 14 h | – | 13k |
| Jul 4, 2017 | No storm report | 1,177 | 3% | 14 h | – | 12k |
| Aug 6, 2016 | No storm report | 1,521 | 4% | 13 h | – | 12k |
| Sep 23, 2023 | No storm report | 1,527 | 4% | 11 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,245 | 3% | 11 h | – | 10k |
| Nov 30, 2019 | No storm report | 3,564 | 8% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 9.9k |
| Apr 28, 2021 | No storm report | 2,640 | 6% | 3.8 h | 4.0 h | 9.7k |
| Jul 29, 2022 | No storm report | 2,439 | 6% | 5.5 h | 2.8 h | 9.5k |
| Jun 9, 2020 | No storm report | 1,167 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 8.5k |
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 Creek from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 49%
- No storm on record 21%
- Tornadoes 21%
- Ice storm 4.9%
- Heat 2.3%
- Winter storm 0.8%
- Wildfire 0.8%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Creek
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Oklahoma territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co | Investor Owned | 237 | 145 | 1.71 | 12.5 | 716k |
| Public Service Co of Oklahoma | Investor Owned | 200 | 98 | 1.48 | 14.2 | 506k |
| East Central Oklahoma Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 419 | 321 | 2.97 | 13.6 | 34k |
| Canadian Valley Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 287 | 226 | 1.51 | 13.3 | 25k |
| Central Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc | Cooperative | 275 | 138 | 1.58 | 12.9 | 20k |
| Indian Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 102 | 44 | 0.63 | 13.4 | 15k |
| Town of Mannford | OK | – | – | – | – | 11k |
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 42,957 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 →