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

Power outage history

Gaines County Texas

3.3hours

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

220th most of 240 in Texas 49% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 19, 2020 9% of customers out · 90% back in 43 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.3h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.0 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 48hours Oct 27, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 25% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 5.8 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 13,871 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 Gaines'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gaines, hours without power per customer

GainesUS median countyTexas average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 2.4 ’15 1.5 ’16 0.8 ’17 4.4 ’18 2.8 ’19 5.8 ’20 2.4 ’21 1.7 ’22 3.9 ’23 2.9 ’24 2.8 ’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
Jun 19, 2020 No storm report 1,244 9% 44 h 43 h 31k
Oct 27, 2020 No storm report 1,423 10% 48 h 25 h 27k
Jun 3, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,103 15% 20 h 15 h 16k
Sep 1, 2018 No storm report 2,602 19% 11 h 7.5 h 13k
Mar 13, 2019 Windstorm 919 7% 16 h 6.8 h 12k
Apr 8, 2023 No storm report 5,157 37% 3.0 h 7.5 h 11k
Jul 2, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,899 21% 7.0 h 5.2 h 9.3k
Jun 17, 2020 No storm report 2,948 21% 8.2 h 7.2 h 8.6k
Mar 4, 2025 Windstorm 3,257 23% 2.0 h 1.5 h 5.6k
Jun 1, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,493 11% 5.5 h 3.0 h 5.6k
Oct 28, 2018 No storm report 1,032 7% 6.0 h 5.0 h 5.4k
Feb 16, 2021 No storm report 1,925 14% 5.5 h 4.5 h 5.3k

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 +2h 90% by +6h

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

  • No storm on record 75%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Windstorm 7.8%
  • Winter storm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gaines

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 Public Service Co Investor Owned 441 151 1.71 13.9 224k
Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 267 267 – 10.3 9.2k
Lea County Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 380 380 4.03 10.6 2.2k
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 13,871 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 →