Henderson County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Henderson County, Texas had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.65 times the US outage time per person and 1.83 times the Texas rate. It ranks 56 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

101 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 27,600 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	141,714	25	3
2016	2,902	5	0
2017	282,421	42	1
2018	117,553	112	2
2019	365,520	117	9
2020	142,461	101	3
2021	959,354	137	5
2022	401,116	123	8
2023	765,047	149	7

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	87.0	27,600	647,059
Jan 31, 2023	100.8	11,448	471,621
Apr 29, 2017	43.5	6,010	203,892
Apr 13, 2022	42.2	10,121	127,258
Aug 18, 2019	6.5	14,482	79,806

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.