Power outage history
Franklin County Texas
33hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
14th most of 240 in Texas 5.0× 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 Franklin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Franklin, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,481 | 100% | 6.5 d | 4.5 d | 530k |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,901 | 71% | 3.1 d | 44 h | 76k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | No storm report | 3,162 | 58% | 2.7 d | 5.2 h | 72k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,804 | 51% | 3.3 d | 22 h | 59k |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Winter storm | 4,093 | 75% | 2.4 d | 8.8 h | 55k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,218 | 77% | 32 h | 10 h | 44k |
| Jun 8, 2020 | Tropical Storm Cristobal | 5,481 | 100% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 35k |
| Jun 5, 2024 | No storm report | 4,425 | 81% | 34 h | 9.5 h | 33k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | No storm report | 4,526 | 83% | 12 h | 11 h | 29k |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,028 | 73% | 26 h | 9.0 h | 19k |
| May 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,494 | 64% | 18 h | 11 h | 18k |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Heat | 2,641 | 48% | 20 h | 18 h | 18k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,477 | 27% | 19 h | 17 h | 17k |
| Jan 7, 2017 | Winter storm | 1,399 | 26% | 22 h | 21 h | 16k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,869 | 71% | 29 h | 12 min | 15k |
| Jun 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,524 | 28% | 7.0 h | 6.2 h | 10k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | No storm report | 1,350 | 25% | 42 h | 6.0 h | 10k |
| Jun 5, 2025 | No storm report | 2,054 | 37% | 4.5 h | 4.0 h | 9.2k |
| Nov 4, 2022 | No storm report | 1,698 | 31% | 21 h | 3.8 h | 9.0k |
| May 20, 2017 | No storm report | 1,379 | 25% | 6.2 h | 6.5 h | 8.6k |
| Oct 9, 2024 | No storm report | 1,516 | 28% | 9.5 h | 16 h | 8.5k |
| Sep 20, 2021 | No storm report | 1,630 | 30% | 5.5 h | 3.8 h | 8.2k |
| Aug 30, 2024 | No storm report | 959 | 18% | 11 h | 9.8 h | 7.8k |
| Sep 9, 2023 | No storm report | 1,729 | 32% | 9.8 h | 2.8 h | 7.6k |
| May 8, 2019 | No storm report | 2,269 | 41% | 13 h | 2.0 h | 7.5k |
| Aug 30, 2020 | Heat | 1,742 | 32% | 12 h | 6.5 h | 7.0k |
| Sep 5, 2025 | No storm report | 807 | 15% | 9.0 h | 10 h | 7.0k |
| Jun 12, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 904 | 16% | 12 h | 5.8 h | 6.9k |
| Feb 25, 2015 | Winter storm | 795 | 14% | 10 h | 6.0 h | 6.0k |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,630 | 66% | 10 h | 2.0 h | 5.7k |
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 Franklin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 54%
- No storm on record 30%
- Winter storm 9.9%
- Tropical storm 2.9%
- Heat 2.7%
- Windstorm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Franklin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 467 | 312 | 2.98 | 12.6 | 157k |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 91 | 66 | 1.35 | 11.9 | 88k |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 934 | 576 | 4.31 | 12.8 | 36k |
| Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 2,614 | 1,022 | 5.37 | 13.3 | 35k |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | Investor Owned | 165 | 119 | 1.50 | – | – |
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 5,481 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 →