Power Out Map
– 0% of McCurtain out 0 customers out in Oklahoma

Power outage history

McCurtain County Oklahoma

8.8hours

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

20th most of 75 in Oklahoma 1.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 18, 2023 35% of customers out · 90% back in 15 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.8h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.6days Dec 22, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 21,045 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 McCurtain'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

McCurtain, hours without power per customer

McCurtainUS median countyOklahoma average
0 5 10 15 20 0.7 ’15 1.6 ’16 1.1 ’17 3.2 ’18 6.8 ’19 2.0 ’20 6.8 ’21 16 ’22 16 ’23 11 ’24 8.8 ’25 OK 8.3 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 17, 2023 Thunderstorms 7,396 35% 2.8 d 15 h 178k
Nov 4, 2022 Tornadoes 3,235 15% 3.8 d 2.5 d 153k
Dec 22, 2022 Winter storm 3,231 15% 4.6 d 3.0 h 103k
Oct 20, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,946 14% 18 h 12 h 33k
Jun 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,610 22% 23 h 10 h 32k
Mar 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,808 23% 21 h 18 h 31k
May 25, 2024 No storm report 2,885 14% 43 h 18 h 31k
May 24, 2024 Flooding 3,225 15% 17 h 8.8 h 25k
Jun 12, 2021 No storm report 1,521 7% 30 h 1.8 h 22k
Mar 4, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,577 7% 25 h 16 h 17k
May 3, 2023 No storm report 840 4% 23 h – 17k
Feb 16, 2021 Winter storm 3,310 16% 8.8 h 3.2 h 13k

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 +6h 90% by +16h

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

  • No storm on record 33%
  • Thunderstorms 33%
  • Tornadoes 14%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Heat 4.0%
  • Flooding 3.8%
  • Windstorm 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving McCurtain

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
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
Rich Mountain Elec Coop, Inc AR – – – 8.4 5.6k
Southwest Arkansas E C C Cooperative – – – 12.9 220

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 Oklahoma

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Oklahoma 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 21,045 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 →