Power outage history
Callahan County Texas
19hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
46th most of 240 in Texas 2.9× 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 Callahan'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 2.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Callahan, 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 | 3,715 | 98% | 3.4 d | 30 h | 117k |
| Dec 31, 2020 | Winter storm | 2,484 | 66% | 40 h | 16 h | 36k |
| Aug 23, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,779 | 100% | 26 h | 22 h | 25k |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,552 | 94% | 19 h | 17 h | 22k |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Ice storm | 2,029 | 54% | 40 h | 3.2 h | 16k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,266 | 60% | 19 h | 9.5 h | 15k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,497 | 40% | 19 h | 15 h | 15k |
| Apr 23, 2019 | No storm report | 1,344 | 36% | 13 h | 14 h | 15k |
| Jun 5, 2024 | No storm report | 1,377 | 36% | 7.0 h | 3.8 h | 8.2k |
| Feb 21, 2018 | Winter storm | 307 | 8% | 2.2 d | 30 h | 6.8k |
| May 25, 2024 | No storm report | 3,678 | 97% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 6.1k |
| Aug 27, 2019 | No storm report | 1,108 | 29% | 4.5 h | 3.2 h | 4.9k |
| Mar 19, 2022 | No storm report | 1,039 | 27% | 12 h | 17 h | 4.9k |
| Jun 8, 2019 | No storm report | 1,026 | 27% | 4.0 h | 12 h | 4.1k |
| Sep 27, 2022 | No storm report | 2,331 | 62% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 4.1k |
| May 30, 2024 | No storm report | 2,466 | 65% | 7.2 h | 12 min | 3.9k |
| Sep 23, 2019 | No storm report | 757 | 20% | 5.0 h | 11 h | 3.8k |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 959 | 25% | 17 h | 4.2 h | 3.7k |
| Jun 22, 2023 | No storm report | 183 | 5% | 34 h | – | 3.6k |
| May 25, 2021 | No storm report | 2,131 | 56% | 4.5 h | 30 min | 3.6k |
| Oct 5, 2022 | No storm report | 2,119 | 56% | 2.2 h | 2.5 h | 3.6k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,222 | 32% | 11 h | 2.8 h | 3.5k |
| Jun 6, 2024 | No storm report | 1,182 | 31% | 3.0 h | 5.8 h | 3.5k |
| Apr 26, 2024 | No storm report | 1,103 | 29% | 3.2 h | 14 h | 3.4k |
| Feb 11, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,890 | 50% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 3.1k |
| Jul 14, 2018 | No storm report | 1,084 | 29% | 2.8 h | 12 min | 3.0k |
| Jul 1, 2015 | No storm report | 1,832 | 48% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 2.7k |
| May 10, 2015 | No storm report | 1,279 | 34% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 2.7k |
| Mar 18, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,922 | 51% | 5.0 h | 1.8 h | 2.5k |
| Sep 2, 2024 | No storm report | 1,105 | 29% | 2.8 h | 30 min | 2.5k |
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 Callahan from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 45%
- Winter storm 33%
- Thunderstorms 18%
- Ice storm 3.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Callahan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coleman County Elec Coop, Inc | TX | – | – | – | 12.6 | 60k |
| Taylor Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 364 | 309 | 3.54 | 16.1 | 19k |
| Comanche County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.7 | 7.5k |
| AEP Texas North Company | Investor Owned | 133 | 106 | 1.41 | – | – |
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 3,779 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 →