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

Power outage history

Culberson County Texas

38hours

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

8th most of 240 in Texas 5.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 8, 2015 100% of customers out · 90% back in 16 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 38h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.4days Jun 22, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 20% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 5.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 1,000 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 Culberson'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Culberson, hours without power per customer

CulbersonUS median countyTexas average
0 50 100 150 ’15 ’16 ’17 22 ’18 22 ’19 11 ’20 17 ’21 9.3 ’22 6.1 ’23 84 ’24 131 ’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
Jul 8, 2015 No storm report 1,000 100% 43 h 16 h 43k
Jul 7, 2015 No storm report 1,000 100% 13 h 25 h 13k
Jun 22, 2025 No storm report 195 20% 8.4 d 6.8 d 12k
Jul 3, 2021 No storm report 1,000 100% 9.2 h 9.2 h 7.5k
Sep 30, 2024 No storm report 1,000 100% 17 h 4.2 h 6.9k
Jul 13, 2025 No storm report 1,000 100% 14 h 13 h 6.5k
Aug 16, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,000 100% 6.0 h 12 h 5.9k
Apr 4, 2025 No storm report 226 23% 2.6 d 1.8 h 5.6k
Jan 7, 2025 No storm report 1,000 100% 15 h 12 h 5.2k
Mar 3, 2024 Windstorm 178 18% 47 h 9.2 h 4.6k
Dec 26, 2015 No storm report 1,000 100% 4.2 h 4.2 h 4.2k
Apr 24, 2025 No storm report 53 5% 3.4 d 3.2 d 4.1k

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 +8h 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 Culberson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 80%
  • Windstorm 14%
  • Thunderstorms 5.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Culberson

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
El Paso Electric Co Investor Owned 55 55 0.86 13.9 320k
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 195 134 – 18.3 9.4k
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 1,000 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 →