Power outage history
Rusk County Texas
21hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
38th most of 240 in Texas 3.2× 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 Rusk's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 47 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Rusk, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 12,840 | 48% | 3.0 d | 47 h | 375k |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 12,312 | 46% | 3.0 d | 41 h | 349k |
| May 25, 2015 | Tornadoes | 7,998 | 30% | 2.6 d | 3.0 d | 328k |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 12,571 | 47% | 2.0 d | 43 h | 299k |
| May 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 10,129 | 38% | 4.2 d | 3.3 d | 271k |
| Apr 8, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 12,202 | 46% | 3.7 d | 42 h | 260k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 6,024 | 23% | 3.6 d | 2.9 d | 224k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 5,819 | 22% | 30 h | 20 h | 88k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,461 | 13% | 2.4 d | 44 h | 70k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,421 | 9% | 2.3 d | 2.2 d | 68k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | Heat | 13,290 | 50% | 16 h | 2.8 h | 65k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,885 | 18% | 36 h | 3.8 h | 63k |
| Mar 21, 2022 | Tornadoes | 3,810 | 14% | 48 h | 40 h | 57k |
| Mar 17, 2021 | No storm report | 11,494 | 43% | 9.2 h | 5.5 h | 54k |
| May 28, 2015 | No storm report | 4,392 | 17% | 2.2 d | 27 h | 52k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,675 | 14% | 32 h | 26 h | 47k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 6,327 | 24% | 38 h | 3.8 h | 47k |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,760 | 7% | 40 h | 42 h | 42k |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 9,293 | 35% | 17 h | 7.2 h | 41k |
| Apr 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,400 | 13% | 27 h | 20 h | 41k |
| May 5, 2022 | Tornadoes | 3,497 | 13% | 31 h | 29 h | 40k |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,083 | 19% | 19 h | 17 h | 38k |
| May 28, 2017 | Tornadoes | 2,757 | 10% | 45 h | 28 h | 38k |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 4,747 | 18% | 13 h | 4.2 h | 31k |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,201 | 12% | 17 h | 15 h | 31k |
| Jul 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,185 | 8% | 26 h | 22 h | 31k |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,378 | 13% | 19 h | 16 h | 28k |
| Nov 2, 2020 | No storm report | 10,685 | 40% | 3.2 h | 1.2 h | 27k |
| Feb 25, 2015 | Winter storm | 6,382 | 24% | 11 h | 4.2 h | 27k |
| Jul 5, 2018 | No storm report | 3,140 | 12% | 11 h | 11 h | 26k |
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 Rusk from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 59%
- No storm on record 20%
- Winter storm 11%
- Heat 3.2%
- Tornadoes 3.0%
- Tropical storm 2.4%
- Windstorm 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Rusk
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 Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 467 | 312 | 2.98 | 12.6 | 157k |
| Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp | Cooperative | 1,332 | 714 | 5.60 | 12.7 | 45k |
| Deep East Texas Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 1,119 | 1,119 | – | 14.1 | 41k |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 841 | 483 | 5.37 | 14.8 | 23k |
| Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 587 | 357 | – | 13.3 | 18k |
| 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.
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 26,571 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 →