NOAA Storm Events, 2015–2025
Battery Backup & Outage Risk for Oklahoma City, OK
How often Oklahoma City, OK gets the kind of severe weather that drives grid outages — the real local signal for whether adding battery backup to a solar system is worth it here.
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Severe-weather events on record
Hail, thunderstorm wind & tornado
383 / 251 / 29
Hail / wind / tornado
Breakdown by event type
11
Years covered
Span of the record
Nov 2025
Most recent event
Latest on record
What this means if you live in Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City, OK's severe-weather frequency is among the highest we track (#2 of 20) — about 130% above the average across the metros we track. Severe weather like this is one of the best-documented causes of grid outages, so the more of it your area sees, the more hours you can expect the power to actually be out — and the stronger the case for adding battery backup rather than solar panels alone. That last part matters: on a normal grid-tied system, your panels shut off automatically during an outage for utility-worker safety, so without a battery, having solar doesn't keep your lights on when the grid goes down. A battery is what turns your roof into a source of power you can still use during exactly the storms this data is counting.
What exactly is being counted here?
These are severe-weather events — hail, thunderstorm wind, and tornadoes — that NOAA recorded in and around Oklahoma City, OK between 2015 and 2025. They are not a count of power outages; no one keeps a complete national outage log at the home level. Severe weather is instead used here as a real, per-city driver of outage risk: downed lines, blown transformers, and storm damage are the leading cause of the multi-hour outages that a home battery is meant to ride through. A city that sees this kind of weather often is a city where a grid-tied-plus-battery system pays off more of the time; a city that rarely does is one where battery backup is more of a comfort-and-resilience choice than a frequent necessity.
Severe-weather event data: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database (Hail, Thunderstorm Wind, and Tornado, 2015–2025). Comparison figures are computed across the 20 metros ClearPick currently tracks, not a national survey. Severe-weather frequency is a documented driver of grid outages, not a count of outages — actual outage duration also depends on your utility, local grid condition, and restoration times.
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