Power outage history
Hansford County Texas
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
97th most of 240 in Texas 1.9× 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 Hansford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hansford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,080 | 77% | 3.0 d | 33 h | 34k |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,218 | 87% | 29 h | 2.5 h | 22k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | No storm report | 1,137 | 81% | 2.7 d | 26 h | 17k |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,398 | 100% | 12 h | 11 h | 16k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Windstorm | 874 | 63% | 20 h | 3.2 h | 6.6k |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 216 | 15% | 42 h | 28 h | 3.2k |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Winter storm | 772 | 55% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 3.1k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 152 | 11% | 23 h | 4.2 h | 2.8k |
| Jul 4, 2020 | No storm report | 762 | 55% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 2.7k |
| Nov 2, 2024 | No storm report | 770 | 55% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 2.3k |
| Mar 27, 2018 | No storm report | 971 | 69% | 3.5 h | 2.2 h | 2.3k |
| Nov 1, 2020 | No storm report | 50 | 4% | 2.1 d | – | 2.0k |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 998 | 71% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 1.7k |
| Nov 3, 2018 | No storm report | 979 | 70% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.7k |
| Aug 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,398 | 100% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 1.7k |
| Dec 26, 2018 | No storm report | 987 | 71% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.5k |
| May 1, 2024 | Tornadoes | 171 | 12% | 10 h | 11 h | 1.5k |
| May 18, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 771 | 55% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 1.3k |
| Jul 10, 2015 | No storm report | 979 | 70% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.2k |
| Jan 15, 2022 | No storm report | 170 | 12% | 5.8 h | 12 h | 978 |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Tornadoes | 774 | 55% | 1.2 h | 1.5 h | 966 |
| May 16, 2016 | No storm report | 747 | 53% | 1.5 h | 1.0 h | 952 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | No storm report | 998 | 71% | 1.0 h | 8.8 h | 943 |
| Jun 11, 2018 | No storm report | 755 | 54% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 864 |
| May 15, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 135 | 10% | 6.2 h | 9.2 h | 818 |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 206 | 15% | 7.5 h | 6.2 h | 812 |
| May 31, 2023 | No storm report | 138 | 10% | 5.8 h | 5.0 h | 775 |
| May 10, 2022 | No storm report | 210 | 15% | 5.0 h | 2.8 h | 764 |
| Sep 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 156 | 11% | 6.8 h | 13 h | 754 |
| Apr 9, 2017 | No storm report | 754 | 54% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 754 |
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 Hansford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 31%
- Windstorm 25%
- No storm on record 23%
- Thunderstorms 20%
- Tornadoes 1.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hansford
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 |
| North Plains Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 890 | 336 | – | 11.5 | 3.1k |
| Rita Blanca Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 885 | 159 | 4.12 | 8.4 | 1.2k |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) | Cooperative | – | – | – | 15.6 | 220 |
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
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 1,398 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 →