Falls County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Falls County, Texas had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.00 times the US outage time per person and 2.21 times the Texas rate. It ranks 41 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

111 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aprhardest months

February and April made up 77% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 1, 2023, reached 6,131 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 110.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	23,594	18	2
2016	1,097	1	0
2017	1,884	3	0
2018	22,438	18	0
2019	38,060	23	3
2020	21,270	22	1
2021	329,820	27	4
2022	56,078	33	2
2023	285,195	40	5

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 1, 2023	110.8	6,131	245,973
Feb 14, 2021	102.0	5,820	243,332
Feb 11, 2021	53.5	1,319	26,839
Feb 18, 2021	55.0	1,305	24,258
Apr 13, 2019	35.5	2,382	19,324

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.