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

Power outage history

Walker County Texas

15hours

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

76th most of 240 in Texas 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Beryl · Jul 8, 2024 60% of customers out · 90% back in 4.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.4days Hurricane Beryl, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 76% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 2.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 36,241 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 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 Walker'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Walker, hours without power per customer

WalkerUS median countyTexas average
0 20 40 60 80 6.6 ’15 2.5 ’16 7.5 ’17 4.6 ’18 3.5 ’19 12 ’20 16 ’21 7.6 ’22 13 ’23 55 ’24 6.0 ’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
Jul 8, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 21,907 60% 5.4 d 4.0 d 1.2M
May 28, 2024 Thunderstorms 20,917 58% 4.3 d 31 h 512k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 12,121 33% 4.6 d 45 h 401k
Apr 9, 2020 Thunderstorms 17,024 47% 47 h 27 h 187k
Aug 27, 2017 Hurricane Harvey 5,769 16% 2.4 d 25 h 143k
Apr 27, 2015 Thunderstorms 5,223 14% 2.6 d 2.1 d 107k
May 23, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,953 14% 2.1 d 2.1 d 97k
Mar 18, 2018 Thunderstorms 6,288 17% 45 h 25 h 78k
Dec 22, 2022 No storm report 4,484 12% 25 h 8.5 h 52k
Jun 10, 2023 Thunderstorms 7,854 22% 26 h 6.0 h 45k
Jun 21, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,833 8% 26 h 24 h 36k
Oct 25, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,597 18% 9.5 h 7.0 h 33k

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 +8h 90% by +24h

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

  • Tropical storm 33%
  • Thunderstorms 30%
  • No storm on record 24%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Flooding 1.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Walker

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
Entergy Texas Inc. Investor Owned 403 305 2.58 13.9 469k
Sam Houston Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 466 347 – 14.2 88k
Mid-South Electric Coop Assn Cooperative 189 118 2.30 15.4 37k
Houston County Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 539 195 5.37 15.3 22k

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 36,241 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 →