Power outage history
Smith County Texas
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
94th most of 240 in Texas 2.0× 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 Smith'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 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Smith, 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 | 71,890 | 56% | 3.6 d | 2.1 d | 2.0M |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Winter storm | 42,079 | 33% | 4.3 d | 2.1 d | 1.7M |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 42,339 | 33% | 3.5 d | 2.0 d | 1.6M |
| May 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 37,679 | 29% | 3.6 d | 2.1 d | 795k |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 33,192 | 26% | 48 h | 31 h | 498k |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 18,487 | 14% | 2.1 d | 38 h | 411k |
| Sep 24, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 22,312 | 17% | 26 h | 23 h | 245k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 14,531 | 11% | 32 h | 30 h | 227k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 12,101 | 9% | 2.4 d | 43 h | 219k |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 21,410 | 17% | 21 h | 16 h | 211k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,146 | 6% | 2.7 d | 3.0 d | 193k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Windstorm | 14,400 | 11% | 34 h | 29 h | 160k |
| Jun 23, 2023 | No storm report | 14,553 | 11% | 22 h | 19 h | 128k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 9,964 | 8% | 25 h | 21 h | 120k |
| Apr 8, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 9,005 | 7% | 28 h | 7.8 h | 88k |
| Apr 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 7,648 | 6% | 18 h | 23 h | 76k |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 11,316 | 9% | 12 h | 11 h | 74k |
| May 8, 2019 | Flooding | 8,702 | 7% | 21 h | 20 h | 72k |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Heat | 11,573 | 9% | 14 h | 9.2 h | 70k |
| May 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 8,465 | 7% | 12 h | 12 h | 58k |
| Apr 29, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,042 | 5% | 13 h | 12 h | 44k |
| May 25, 2015 | No storm report | 6,242 | 5% | 11 h | 19 h | 41k |
| May 24, 2024 | No storm report | 6,731 | 5% | 14 h | 12 h | 37k |
| Apr 13, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 7,125 | 6% | 8.2 h | 10 h | 34k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,855 | 5% | 12 h | 14 h | 34k |
| May 24, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,682 | 4% | 13 h | 17 h | 32k |
| May 16, 2022 | No storm report | 5,726 | 4% | 9.8 h | 7.8 h | 30k |
| Apr 16, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,873 | 2% | 16 h | – | 30k |
| May 17, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,258 | 3% | 14 h | – | 29k |
| Oct 5, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,269 | 3% | 11 h | – | 29k |
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 Smith from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 49%
- Winter storm 36%
- No storm on record 8.1%
- Flooding 1.6%
- Windstorm 1.5%
- Heat 1.5%
- Tropical storm 1.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Smith
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 |
| Wood County Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 934 | 576 | 4.31 | 12.8 | 36k |
| Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn | Cooperative | 841 | 483 | 5.37 | 14.8 | 23k |
| 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 129,054 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 →