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

Power outage history

Garza County Texas

7.8hours

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

152nd most of 240 in Texas 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 28, 2020 88% of customers out · 90% back in 45 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.8h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.6 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 5.7days Oct 27, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 57% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 27 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,693 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 Garza'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 27 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Garza, hours without power per customer

GarzaUS median countyTexas average
0 10 20 30 40 0.9 ’15 ’16 6.9 ’17 1.8 ’18 3.6 ’19 27 ’20 3.1 ’21 4.2 ’22 3.3 ’23 6.3 ’24 13 ’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
Oct 27, 2020 Winter storm 2,365 88% 5.7 d 45 h 42k
Jun 4, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,170 81% 44 h 16 h 22k
Mar 30, 2017 No storm report 2,013 75% 7.5 h 7.2 h 15k
Apr 25, 2024 No storm report 1,068 40% 7.8 h 4.2 h 5.8k
Feb 5, 2025 No storm report 2,082 77% 2.8 h 3.0 h 5.7k
Jun 6, 2025 Windstorm 1,394 52% 9.5 h 7.0 h 4.5k
Mar 14, 2025 Windstorm 1,272 47% 33 h 30 min 4.5k
Aug 23, 2019 No storm report 2,693 100% 2.5 h 1.8 h 4.4k
Apr 17, 2024 No storm report 2,118 79% 2.5 h 2.0 h 4.3k
Sep 11, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,107 41% 10 h 8.5 h 4.1k
Sep 13, 2025 No storm report 822 31% 3.8 h 3.5 h 3.0k
Aug 10, 2025 No storm report 820 30% 7.8 h 7.2 h 2.7k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +8h

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

  • No storm on record 43%
  • Winter storm 28%
  • Thunderstorms 22%
  • Windstorm 6.3%
  • Flooding 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Garza

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
South Plains Electric Coop Inc Cooperative – – – 11.0 59k
Big Country Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 1,182 – – 13.3 9.5k
Lyntegar Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 267 267 – 10.3 9.2k

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 2,693 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 →