Power outage history
Falls County Texas
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
69th most of 240 in Texas 2.4× 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 Falls'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 39 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Falls, 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 11, 2021 | Ice storm | 5,820 | 64% | 9.8 d | 2.2 d | 298k |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Ice storm | 6,131 | 67% | 4.7 d | 2.7 d | 246k |
| May 22, 2024 | No storm report | 5,608 | 62% | 24 h | 36 h | 86k |
| Apr 28, 2024 | No storm report | 3,006 | 33% | 18 h | 10 h | 21k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | No storm report | 2,382 | 26% | 36 h | 35 h | 19k |
| May 24, 2024 | Tornadoes | 1,540 | 17% | 33 h | 30 h | 19k |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,352 | 15% | 19 h | 16 h | 18k |
| Oct 24, 2022 | No storm report | 2,266 | 25% | 10 h | 5.2 h | 12k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,322 | 15% | 18 h | 14 h | 12k |
| May 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,547 | 17% | 32 h | 15 h | 11k |
| Aug 19, 2022 | No storm report | 1,966 | 22% | 5.2 h | 7.8 h | 10k |
| May 31, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 649 | 7% | 32 h | 28 h | 9.0k |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Tropical Storm Bill | 988 | 11% | 19 h | 14 h | 9.0k |
| Jun 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,529 | 17% | 19 h | 14 h | 8.8k |
| Apr 24, 2025 | No storm report | 1,237 | 14% | 11 h | 10 h | 7.4k |
| Nov 14, 2018 | No storm report | 3,167 | 35% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 7.0k |
| Aug 18, 2021 | No storm report | 2,696 | 30% | 3.8 h | 3.2 h | 6.8k |
| May 22, 2022 | No storm report | 958 | 11% | 7.5 h | 5.0 h | 5.6k |
| Aug 27, 2023 | Heat | 336 | 4% | 23 h | – | 5.1k |
| May 18, 2019 | No storm report | 388 | 4% | 27 h | – | 5.1k |
| Jul 6, 2025 | No storm report | 523 | 6% | 11 h | 30 min | 4.8k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 320 | 4% | 19 h | – | 4.6k |
| Sep 4, 2022 | No storm report | 1,055 | 12% | 6.0 h | 5.0 h | 4.4k |
| Apr 26, 2023 | No storm report | 1,125 | 12% | 4.8 h | 2.0 h | 4.3k |
| Jun 27, 2015 | No storm report | 1,013 | 11% | 4.2 h | 48 min | 4.2k |
| May 21, 2022 | No storm report | 895 | 10% | 6.8 h | 4.0 h | 4.1k |
| Jun 21, 2020 | No storm report | 847 | 9% | 4.8 h | 1.8 h | 3.8k |
| May 2, 2019 | No storm report | 887 | 10% | 11 h | 7.0 h | 3.8k |
| May 28, 2024 | No storm report | 884 | 10% | 9.0 h | 5.8 h | 3.7k |
| May 15, 2020 | No storm report | 931 | 10% | 4.0 h | 3.0 h | 3.6k |
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 Falls from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 53%
- No storm on record 36%
- Thunderstorms 5.7%
- Heat 2.2%
- Tornadoes 2.1%
- Flooding 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Falls
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Texas Inc. | Investor Owned | 403 | 305 | 2.58 | 13.9 | 469k |
| Navasota Valley Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 569 | 473 | 4.45 | 16.3 | 20k |
| Heart of Texas Electric Coop | Cooperative | 204 | 134 | 1.83 | 11.9 | 18k |
| 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.
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 9,093 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 →