Power Out Map
– 0% of Borden out 0 customers out in Texas

Power outage history

Borden County Texas

33hours

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

5.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 26, 2021 73% of customers out · 90% back in 2.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 33h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 26.9 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 2.9days Jun 25, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 26% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 4.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 408 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 Borden'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Borden, hours without power per customer

BordenUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 ’15 ’17 7.8 ’18 13 ’19 30 ’20 95 ’21 23 ’22 56 ’23 19 ’24 17 ’25 TX 9.0 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 25, 2021 Thunderstorms 298 73% 2.9 d 2.6 d 14k
Feb 13, 2021 No storm report 403 99% 2.5 d 7.0 h 10k
Feb 16, 2021 No storm report 282 69% 17 h 7.0 h 4.8k
Oct 27, 2020 No storm report 408 100% 29 h 13 h 4.5k
Jan 29, 2023 No storm report 135 33% 17 h 17 h 2.2k
May 30, 2023 No storm report 134 33% 13 h 24 h 1.8k
May 19, 2023 No storm report 278 68% 12 h 14 h 1.4k
Jun 4, 2020 Thunderstorms 168 41% 12 h 15 h 1.3k
May 23, 2023 Thunderstorms 82 20% 20 h 16 h 1.3k
Dec 6, 2022 No storm report 134 33% 8.2 h 19 h 1.1k
May 13, 2023 No storm report 58 14% 20 h 11 h 1.1k
Jun 28, 2021 No storm report 46 11% 27 h 22 h 976

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 +10h 90% by +14h

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

  • No storm on record 74%
  • Thunderstorms 23%
  • Windstorm 3.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Borden

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Texas territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Southwestern Public Service Co Investor Owned 441 151 1.71 13.9 224k
Big Country Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 1,182 – – 13.3 9.5k
Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 267 267 – 10.3 9.2k
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Investor Owned 232 67 1.55 – –

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 Texas

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 408 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 →