Dimmit County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dimmit County, Texas had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 1.00 times the Texas rate. It ranks 115 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 16, 2021, reached 1,006 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.8 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	23,768	17	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	671	2	0
2018	34,958	13	1
2019	18,366	14	0
2020	2,963	8	0
2021	69,895	23	3
2022	7,566	16	0
2023	5,362	11	0

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 16, 2021	51.8	1,006	37,697
Dec 13, 2018	23.0	2,425	18,828
May 18, 2021	8.5	2,062	7,696
Jul 5, 2018	5.2	1,258	5,206
Jun 27, 2019	2.8	1,858	4,753

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.