Power outage history
McCulloch County Texas
4.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
205th most of 240 in Texas 33% below 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 McCulloch'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 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
McCulloch, 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 14, 2021 | Winter storm | 2,253 | 30% | 4.1 d | 3.5 h | 89k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,984 | 39% | 19 h | 4.8 h | 23k |
| May 12, 2024 | No storm report | 2,029 | 27% | 8.0 h | 48 min | 7.3k |
| May 22, 2025 | No storm report | 669 | 9% | 23 h | 20 h | 6.4k |
| Jun 23, 2020 | No storm report | 1,470 | 19% | 5.8 h | 2.0 h | 5.6k |
| May 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 867 | 11% | 9.2 h | 8.5 h | 4.9k |
| Apr 28, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 172 | 2% | 27 h | – | 4.6k |
| Feb 26, 2019 | No storm report | 2,502 | 33% | 1.5 h | 4.2 h | 3.3k |
| Sep 2, 2018 | No storm report | 1,542 | 20% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 2.9k |
| May 16, 2024 | No storm report | 351 | 5% | 14 h | – | 2.5k |
| Oct 12, 2019 | No storm report | 782 | 10% | 4.8 h | 2.2 h | 2.5k |
| Jun 5, 2022 | No storm report | 445 | 6% | 6.5 h | 3.5 h | 2.4k |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 393 | 5% | 12 h | 7.5 h | 2.3k |
| Feb 26, 2025 | No storm report | 2,314 | 30% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 2.3k |
| Sep 16, 2023 | No storm report | 208 | 3% | 14 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jun 17, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 480 | 6% | 6.2 h | 3.5 h | 2.2k |
| Mar 16, 2020 | No storm report | 440 | 6% | 4.8 h | 5.8 h | 2.1k |
| May 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 375 | 5% | 8.8 h | – | 2.0k |
| Aug 12, 2018 | No storm report | 1,729 | 23% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 2.0k |
| Aug 1, 2025 | No storm report | 590 | 8% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 2.0k |
| May 24, 2023 | No storm report | 366 | 5% | 12 h | – | 1.9k |
| May 1, 2024 | No storm report | 374 | 5% | 8.2 h | – | 1.8k |
| Apr 13, 2018 | No storm report | 118 | 2% | 15 h | – | 1.7k |
| Jul 1, 2023 | No storm report | 496 | 7% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 1.6k |
| Dec 12, 2024 | No storm report | 256 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 1.6k |
| May 12, 2023 | No storm report | 313 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 1.6k |
| Jun 24, 2023 | No storm report | 533 | 7% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 1.5k |
| Jun 18, 2023 | No storm report | 550 | 7% | 5.8 h | 10 h | 1.4k |
| Jul 23, 2024 | No storm report | 134 | 2% | 9.5 h | – | 1.3k |
| Mar 20, 2022 | No storm report | 307 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 1.2k |
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 McCulloch from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 41%
- Winter storm 39%
- Thunderstorms 19%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving McCulloch
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Texas Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 220 | 193 | 1.97 | 12.2 | 40k |
| City of Brady | TX | – | – | – | – | 28k |
| AEP Texas North Company | Investor Owned | 133 | 106 | 1.41 | – | – |
| 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.
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 7,593 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 →