Power outage history
Lincoln County Oklahoma
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
13th most of 75 in Oklahoma 1.7× 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 Lincoln's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 44 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lincoln, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2020 | Ice storm | 11,593 | 68% | 7.4 d | 4.5 d | 677k |
| Nov 3, 2024 | Tornadoes | 3,159 | 19% | 2.6 d | 2.1 d | 79k |
| Jun 17, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,754 | 22% | 2.7 d | 16 h | 69k |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,469 | 32% | 32 h | 13 h | 51k |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Tornadoes | 1,806 | 11% | 21 h | 8.2 h | 29k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,783 | 16% | 11 h | 5.0 h | 22k |
| May 6, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,845 | 11% | 22 h | 19 h | 19k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,604 | 9% | 31 h | 27 h | 17k |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Tornadoes | 1,005 | 6% | 27 h | 25 h | 17k |
| Sep 5, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,583 | 9% | 17 h | 13 h | 16k |
| Jan 3, 2019 | No storm report | 1,825 | 11% | 11 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Jul 29, 2021 | No storm report | 1,088 | 6% | 14 h | 15 h | 10k |
| Jun 7, 2018 | No storm report | 2,319 | 14% | 6.8 h | 3.5 h | 8.1k |
| Jul 28, 2022 | No storm report | 1,122 | 7% | 10 h | 15 h | 7.9k |
| May 18, 2017 | No storm report | 1,272 | 8% | 5.5 h | 12 h | 7.0k |
| Oct 10, 2022 | No storm report | 1,768 | 10% | 6.2 h | 3.8 h | 6.7k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,317 | 14% | 14 h | 5.2 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 17, 2025 | No storm report | 510 | 3% | 19 h | – | 6.4k |
| Jul 3, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,578 | 9% | 12 h | 10 h | 6.3k |
| Jun 3, 2025 | No storm report | 862 | 5% | 7.5 h | 7.2 h | 5.9k |
| May 26, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 917 | 5% | 8.5 h | 1.5 h | 5.8k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | No storm report | 777 | 5% | 12 h | – | 5.5k |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,228 | 7% | 5.0 h | 48 min | 5.2k |
| Aug 4, 2020 | No storm report | 1,019 | 6% | 5.2 h | 12 h | 5.1k |
| Sep 29, 2019 | No storm report | 1,656 | 10% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 5.0k |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,241 | 7% | 7.5 h | 7.2 h | 5.0k |
| Apr 21, 2017 | No storm report | 857 | 5% | 11 h | 4.2 h | 4.9k |
| Jul 17, 2024 | No storm report | 483 | 3% | 11 h | – | 4.8k |
| Aug 8, 2023 | No storm report | 1,513 | 9% | 12 h | 7.0 h | 4.6k |
| May 14, 2020 | Windstorm | 953 | 6% | 13 h | 10 h | 4.3k |
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 Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 51%
- No storm on record 21%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Tornadoes 9.9%
- Windstorm 2.2%
- Winter storm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lincoln
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 |
| 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 |
| Prague Public Works Authority | OK | 77 | – | 0.93 | 11.5 | 13k |
| City of Stroud | OK | – | – | – | – | 13k |
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
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 16,933 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 →