Brazoria County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Brazoria County, Texas had 48 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.33 times the US outage time per person and 2.57 times the Texas rate. It ranks 29 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

153 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 318,242 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	70,409	119	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	14,560	13	0
2018	250,824	197	0
2019	333,502	174	1
2020	283,509	169	3
2021	14,898,707	874	15
2022	2,205,188	1061	16
2023	3,100,504	755	13

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 15, 2021	80.5	318,242	10,389,956
Sep 13, 2021	153.2	117,419	2,631,922
Jun 21, 2023	95.2	57,451	965,494
Jun 8, 2023	62.0	48,196	539,406
Jan 24, 2023	30.5	22,233	227,626

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.