Power outage history
Grayson County Texas
7.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
163rd most of 240 in Texas close to 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 Grayson'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 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Grayson, 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 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 19,236 | 37% | 3.1 d | 2.1 d | 672k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 19,362 | 37% | 29 h | 20 h | 179k |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 11,547 | 22% | 28 h | 22 h | 164k |
| May 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 10,525 | 20% | 23 h | 21 h | 93k |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 18,332 | 35% | 18 h | 13 h | 84k |
| Jan 15, 2024 | Winter storm | 7,687 | 15% | 14 h | 13 h | 69k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 5,354 | 10% | 30 h | 29 h | 50k |
| Aug 16, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 10,168 | 19% | 13 h | 9.2 h | 45k |
| Feb 21, 2018 | No storm report | 6,835 | 13% | 21 h | 9.0 h | 39k |
| Sep 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 11,130 | 21% | 7.2 h | 4.5 h | 38k |
| May 23, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,312 | 10% | 15 h | 13 h | 37k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,847 | 7% | 14 h | 12 h | 37k |
| May 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,908 | 7% | 20 h | 17 h | 34k |
| Jul 30, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,483 | 9% | 16 h | 15 h | 34k |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,122 | 8% | 21 h | 19 h | 28k |
| May 26, 2025 | No storm report | 3,700 | 7% | 13 h | 14 h | 26k |
| May 3, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,706 | 3% | 20 h | – | 24k |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Flooding | 4,970 | 9% | 14 h | 12 h | 21k |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Heat | 2,760 | 5% | 16 h | 14 h | 20k |
| Feb 26, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,388 | 6% | 13 h | 23 h | 18k |
| May 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,445 | 5% | 19 h | – | 17k |
| May 17, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,284 | 4% | 14 h | – | 16k |
| Apr 19, 2025 | No storm report | 2,409 | 5% | 11 h | – | 14k |
| May 25, 2022 | No storm report | 2,064 | 4% | 11 h | – | 13k |
| Feb 14, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,482 | 5% | 10 h | – | 12k |
| Jun 19, 2015 | Tropical Storm Bill | 2,909 | 6% | 5.0 h | 3.5 h | 12k |
| May 5, 2024 | No storm report | 2,659 | 5% | 12 h | 2.5 h | 12k |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,503 | 5% | 9.5 h | – | 11k |
| May 10, 2015 | No storm report | 2,381 | 5% | 10 h | – | 10k |
| Nov 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,061 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 10k |
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 Grayson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 43%
- Winter storm 33%
- No storm on record 19%
- Heat 2.3%
- Flooding 1.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Grayson
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denton County Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 49 | 37 | 0.40 | 13.2 | 311k |
| Grayson-Collin Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 240 | 144 | – | 17.0 | 98k |
| City of Whitesboro | TX | – | – | – | – | 21k |
| Cooke County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 349 | 315 | 2.29 | 15.5 | 16k |
| Fannin County Electric Coop | Cooperative | 1,002 | 1,002 | 4.24 | 16.3 | 12k |
| Texas-New Mexico Power Co | Investor Owned | 165 | 119 | 1.50 | – | – |
| 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.
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Neighbouring 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 52,508 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 →