Hansford County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.02 times the US outage time per person and 1.13 times the Texas rate. It ranks 100 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

41 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 1,080 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.8 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	2,833	5	0
2016	1,609	2	0
2017	16,682	5	1
2018	7,477	7	0
2019	22,182	2	1
2020	32,853	3	1
2021	1,011	2	0
2022	25,202	3	1
2023	2,615	4	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
Oct 29, 2020	40.8	1,080	30,134
Jun 8, 2022	11.8	2,761	23,538
Mar 13, 2019	21.0	1,218	21,435
Apr 30, 2017	29.8	1,137	13,092
Jul 4, 2020	3.5	762	2,667

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.