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

Power outage history

Matagorda County Texas

25hours

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

24th most of 240 in Texas 3.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 39 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 25h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.9days Hurricane Beryl, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 77% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 3.9 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 17,119 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 Matagorda'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.9 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Matagorda, hours without power per customer

MatagordaUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 5.1 ’15 ’17 7.1 ’18 9.1 ’19 6.9 ’20 94 ’21 12 ’22 13 ’23 50 ’24 4.9 ’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
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 17,119 100% 3.6 d 39 h 754k
Jul 8, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 15,630 91% 5.9 d 3.4 d 704k
Sep 13, 2021 Hurricane Nicholas 17,119 100% 4.1 d 2.4 d 643k
Jun 21, 2023 No storm report 2,761 16% 45 h 26 h 42k
May 13, 2024 Thunderstorms 6,286 37% 29 h 12 h 38k
Jan 16, 2018 No storm report 2,247 13% 32 h 28 h 31k
Jun 16, 2015 Tropical Storm Bill 1,846 11% 30 h 24 h 29k
Jun 12, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,218 13% 13 h 4.8 h 17k
May 31, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,810 16% 13 h 7.5 h 16k
Jun 27, 2022 No storm report 2,228 13% 18 h 11 h 16k
Jun 8, 2023 No storm report 2,342 14% 19 h 12 h 16k
May 16, 2020 No storm report 3,408 20% 9.5 h 3.5 h 13k

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 +4h 90% by +20h

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

  • Tropical storm 47%
  • Winter storm 26%
  • No storm on record 23%
  • Thunderstorms 3.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Matagorda

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
Jackson Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.6 16k
Wharton County Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 14.2 5.6k
CenterPoint Energy Investor Owned 193 151 1.95 – –
Texas-New Mexico Power Co Investor Owned 165 119 1.50 – –
AEP Texas Central Company Investor Owned 205 155 1.76 – –

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 17,119 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 →