Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Fort Bend County Texas

5.5hours

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

190th most of 240 in Texas 16% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Beryl · Jul 8, 2024 34% of customers out · 90% back in 5.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.5h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 33hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.4days Hurricane Beryl, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 90% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 24 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 694,780 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 Fort Bend'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 24 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fort Bend, hours without power per customer

Fort BendUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 0.1 ’15 ’17 0.6 ’18 0.8 ’19 0.8 ’20 11 ’21 2.0 ’22 3.3 ’23 24 ’24 1.4 ’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, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 236,443 34% 6.4 d 5.2 d 13M
Feb 16, 2021 Winter storm 171,660 25% 42 h 27 h 5.1M
May 16, 2024 No storm report 49,852 7% 3.0 d 3.4 d 1.4M
Sep 14, 2021 Hurricane Nicholas 55,216 8% 42 h 38 h 837k
Jun 21, 2023 No storm report 33,334 5% 21 h 30 h 402k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 50,304 7% 14 h 13 h 333k
Jun 8, 2023 No storm report 26,430 4% 8.2 h 20 h 140k
Aug 10, 2022 Thunderstorms 20,534 3% 6.0 h 14 h 84k
Oct 25, 2022 Thunderstorms 12,035 2% 6.2 h 8.0 h 68k
Oct 28, 2021 No storm report 16,420 2% 4.5 h 12 h 54k
Apr 10, 2024 Thunderstorms 13,981 2% 5.0 h 15 h 52k
May 28, 2024 No storm report 22,536 3% 4.0 h 8.2 h 52k

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 +24h 90% by +48h

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

  • Tropical storm 64%
  • Winter storm 24%
  • No storm on record 10%
  • Thunderstorms 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fort Bend

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
CenterPoint Energy Investor Owned 193 151 1.95 – –

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+

All Texas 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 694,780 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 →