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

Power outage history

Washita County Oklahoma

15hours

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

7th most of 75 in Oklahoma 2.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 28, 2020 96% of customers out · 90% back in 33 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 11.7days Oct 26, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 63% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 2.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,262 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 Washita'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Washita, hours without power per customer

WashitaUS median countyOklahoma average
0 20 40 60 80 54 ’15 7.8 ’16 21 ’17 14 ’18 9.1 ’19 52 ’20 6.7 ’21 7.9 ’22 14 ’23 7.6 ’24 9.1 ’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
Oct 26, 2020 Ice storm 5,075 96% 11.7 d 33 h 249k
Nov 27, 2015 Ice storm 2,890 55% 5.4 d 2.5 d 136k
Dec 27, 2015 No storm report 3,217 61% 3.7 d 2.7 d 126k
Apr 29, 2017 No storm report 4,357 83% 2.8 d 35 h 53k
Jun 23, 2018 No storm report 3,398 65% 25 h 7.5 h 18k
Jul 9, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,710 52% 14 h 7.0 h 14k
Feb 11, 2024 Winter storm 478 9% 2.7 d 41 h 14k
Aug 11, 2023 Heat 2,338 44% 13 h 5.0 h 13k
Aug 12, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,136 22% 24 h 17 h 11k
Jan 15, 2017 No storm report 1,280 24% 14 h 10 h 11k
Nov 12, 2018 No storm report 2,155 41% 16 h 6.2 h 11k
May 29, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,763 53% 5.8 h 7.5 h 10k

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 +4h 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 Washita from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Ice storm 42%
  • No storm on record 37%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Winter storm 3.8%
  • Windstorm 2.5%
  • Heat 2.4%
  • Tornadoes 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Washita

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
Northfork Electric Coop, Inc OK 131 131 – 13.7 64k
CKenergy Electric Cooperative Cooperative 498 498 4.68 13.8 23k
City of New Cordell OK – – – – 16k

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 5,262 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 →