Ellis County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ellis County, Texas had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.69 times the US outage time per person and 0.76 times the Texas rate. It ranks 135 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 25,236 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 98.0 hours.

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	213,200	62	4
2016	0	0	0
2017	5,023	7	0
2018	164,403	99	1
2019	471,178	135	8
2020	171,836	98	1
2021	1,554,258	145	5
2022	396,043	145	5
2023	544,834	158	9

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 14, 2021	98.0	25,236	1,174,244
May 7, 2023	24.8	12,939	117,975
Feb 18, 2021	60.2	4,509	98,430
Oct 21, 2019	34.2	9,923	96,170
Jun 30, 2019	22.0	10,669	79,179

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.