From Winter Storm Blair to Hurricane Beryl in Texas and the more recent Connecticut thunderstorms , power outages from severe weather events have become an increasingly common reality across the United States in recent years.

A nationwide study from the Urban Resilience AI Lab at Texas A&M University has produced the first-ever Power System Vulnerability Index (PSVI)—a classification of each county identifying those most at risk of frequent and prolonged blackouts.

"Using data from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, we studied the effect of weather events on the frequency and duration of nationwide power outages over the past 10 years," explained paper author and civil engineer Junwei Ma in a statement.

"The dataset included over 179 million data points sorted by time and location, al

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