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

Power outage history

Ward County Texas

6.6hours

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

176th most of 240 in Texas close to the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 18% of customers out · 90% back in 25 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.6h / yr State average 9.0 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 8hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.1days Jan 2, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,555 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 Ward'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 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Ward, hours without power per customer

WardUS median countyTexas average
0 5 10 15 20 6.5 ’15 ’17 8.9 ’18 8.8 ’19 4.2 ’20 15 ’21 4.4 ’22 2.8 ’23 2.2 ’24 6.1 ’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 1,572 18% 2.9 d 25 h 62k
Jun 26, 2021 Thunderstorms 3,649 43% 38 h 31 h 46k
Jan 2, 2015 Ice storm 2,078 24% 4.1 d 15 h 29k
May 24, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,432 28% 26 h 22 h 24k
Jun 16, 2018 No storm report 989 12% 27 h 26 h 9.8k
Mar 12, 2019 Thunderstorms 903 11% 44 h 13 h 8.6k
Nov 25, 2022 No storm report 1,340 16% 14 h 10 h 7.8k
Jul 31, 2018 No storm report 2,258 26% 15 h 1.8 h 7.3k
Aug 27, 2019 Thunderstorms 337 4% 26 h – 5.9k
Jun 4, 2019 No storm report 2,163 25% 3.0 h 2.5 h 5.9k
Feb 11, 2020 No storm report 458 5% 11 h 11 h 5.0k
Apr 21, 2019 No storm report 2,135 25% 8.0 h 16 h 4.7k

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 +12h

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

  • No storm on record 53%
  • Thunderstorms 27%
  • Winter storm 18%
  • Windstorm 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Ward

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
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Investor Owned 232 67 1.55 – –
Texas-New Mexico Power Co Investor Owned 165 119 1.50 – –

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+

All Texas 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 8,555 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 →