Power outage history
Caldwell County Texas
3.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
212th most of 240 in Texas 42% below 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 Caldwell's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Caldwell, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 6,940 | 33% | 3.3 d | 43 h | 223k |
| Oct 25, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,080 | 14% | 12 h | 11 h | 29k |
| Oct 30, 2015 | Flooding | 2,554 | 12% | 19 h | 5.0 h | 22k |
| May 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,740 | 8% | 15 h | 8.8 h | 18k |
| May 27, 2025 | No storm report | 1,207 | 6% | 12 h | 6.8 h | 14k |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Tornadoes | 1,885 | 9% | 14 h | 3.8 h | 13k |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Winter storm | 692 | 3% | 32 h | – | 12k |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,835 | 9% | 9.0 h | 7.8 h | 11k |
| Jun 9, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,630 | 8% | 15 h | 14 h | 11k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 2,089 | 10% | 7.5 h | 4.5 h | 9.8k |
| Jan 12, 2022 | No storm report | 7,527 | 35% | 1.8 h | 12 h | 9.8k |
| Dec 18, 2016 | No storm report | 1,965 | 9% | 6.5 h | 3.2 h | 8.6k |
| Jul 21, 2017 | No storm report | 9,781 | 46% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 7.2k |
| May 13, 2023 | No storm report | 767 | 4% | 10 h | – | 6.5k |
| Apr 24, 2021 | No storm report | 2,076 | 10% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 5.7k |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,786 | 8% | 5.5 h | 5.2 h | 4.8k |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,239 | 11% | 4.0 h | 1.2 h | 4.6k |
| Aug 23, 2024 | No storm report | 279 | 1% | 18 h | – | 4.3k |
| Dec 18, 2016 | No storm report | 1,497 | 7% | 3.2 h | 3.8 h | 4.3k |
| Aug 14, 2019 | No storm report | 1,429 | 7% | 4.0 h | 30 min | 4.1k |
| Jul 29, 2024 | No storm report | 1,794 | 8% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 3.6k |
| May 25, 2015 | Flooding | 557 | 3% | 10 h | – | 3.6k |
| Aug 26, 2017 | Hurricane Harvey | 751 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 3.4k |
| Oct 12, 2025 | No storm report | 333 | 2% | 10 h | – | 3.3k |
| Mar 17, 2022 | No storm report | 996 | 5% | 3.5 h | – | 3.3k |
| Aug 28, 2024 | No storm report | 1,362 | 6% | 2.2 h | 1.2 h | 3.1k |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 996 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Apr 16, 2025 | No storm report | 1,359 | 6% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.7k |
| Sep 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,133 | 5% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 2.5k |
| Jul 18, 2024 | No storm report | 1,335 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 2.3k |
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 Caldwell from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 52%
- No storm on record 28%
- Thunderstorms 17%
- Tornadoes 2.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Caldwell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedernales Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 90 | 78 | 1.16 | 12.8 | 421k |
| Bluebonnet Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 114 | 88 | 1.30 | 11.6 | 119k |
| Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 139 | 120 | 1.75 | 11.8 | 95k |
| City of Lockhart | TX | – | – | – | 10.3 | 59k |
| City of Luling | TX | – | – | – | – | 29k |
| AEP Texas Central Company | Investor Owned | 205 | 155 | 1.76 | – | – |
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.
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 21,268 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 →