Power outage history
Le Flore County Oklahoma
7.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
33rd most of 75 in Oklahoma 1.2× 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 Le Flore'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 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Le Flore, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 9,363 | 31% | 2.8 d | 2.4 d | 266k |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Winter storm | 6,947 | 23% | 2.3 d | 33 h | 163k |
| May 19, 2025 | Tornadoes | 4,535 | 15% | 39 h | 11 h | 78k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | No storm report | 5,406 | 18% | 2.6 d | 2.5 d | 61k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,619 | 19% | 34 h | 17 h | 39k |
| Jul 21, 2022 | Heat | 3,121 | 10% | 30 h | 27 h | 37k |
| Sep 22, 2023 | No storm report | 2,814 | 9% | 2.2 d | 16 h | 36k |
| May 26, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,407 | 8% | 23 h | 31 h | 35k |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Heat | 10,365 | 35% | 5.0 h | 3.0 h | 34k |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Heat | 3,813 | 13% | 16 h | 12 h | 31k |
| May 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,904 | 16% | 24 h | 19 h | 30k |
| Jun 7, 2025 | No storm report | 5,618 | 19% | 15 h | 8.2 h | 28k |
| Jul 15, 2023 | No storm report | 1,183 | 4% | 23 h | – | 26k |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,626 | 9% | 9.5 h | 7.2 h | 17k |
| May 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,368 | 15% | 12 h | 6.5 h | 16k |
| Sep 1, 2020 | Flooding | 1,300 | 4% | 23 h | – | 15k |
| Nov 30, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,347 | 8% | 15 h | 14 h | 14k |
| May 10, 2023 | No storm report | 9,606 | 32% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 14k |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Tornadoes | 2,056 | 7% | 13 h | 8.8 h | 14k |
| Nov 20, 2022 | No storm report | 2,022 | 7% | 9.8 h | 5.0 h | 12k |
| Mar 12, 2020 | No storm report | 2,599 | 9% | 4.5 h | 2.5 h | 12k |
| Oct 29, 2023 | No storm report | 1,932 | 6% | 6.2 h | 1.8 h | 11k |
| Jul 8, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 614 | 2% | 23 h | – | 10k |
| Jun 1, 2019 | Flooding | 4,707 | 16% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 10k |
| Jun 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,047 | 4% | 22 h | – | 9.3k |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Flooding | 686 | 2% | 15 h | – | 8.4k |
| Mar 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,963 | 13% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 8.3k |
| Jun 6, 2024 | No storm report | 3,578 | 12% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 7.7k |
| Apr 1, 2024 | No storm report | 2,114 | 7% | 4.5 h | 7.8 h | 7.5k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | No storm report | 853 | 3% | 16 h | – | 7.4k |
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 Le Flore from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 39%
- Thunderstorms 31%
- Winter storm 12%
- Heat 7.6%
- Tornadoes 6.9%
- Flooding 3.3%
- Wildfire 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Le Flore
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 |
| Choctaw Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 806 | – | 4.40 | 13.7 | 22k |
| Kiamichi Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 2,322 | 588 | 4.56 | 13.9 | 21k |
| Cookson Hills Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 488 | 259 | 2.32 | 15.7 | 18k |
| Town of Spiro | OK | – | – | – | – | 11k |
| Rich Mountain Elec Coop, Inc | AR | – | – | – | 8.4 | 5.6k |
| Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp | Cooperative | 198 | 118 | 2.46 | 13.8 | 4.3k |
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
- Scott, AR 11 h
- Latimer 11 h
- McCurtain 8.8 h
- Pushmataha 8.7 h
- Le Flore (this county) 7.8 h
- Sebastian, AR 4.0 h
- Sequoyah 3.1 h
- Haskell 2.0 h
- Polk, AR 1.5 h
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 29,891 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 →