Hidalgo County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hidalgo County, Texas had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.21 times the US outage time per person and 1.34 times the Texas rate. It ranks 83 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

196 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 124,336 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 90.2 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	592,592	167	2
2016	0	0	0
2017	117,696	65	0
2018	899,136	397	0
2019	1,126,318	350	3
2020	6,403,689	307	2
2021	9,022,067	397	4
2022	935,022	351	3
2023	5,327,214	397	6

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	90.2	124,336	7,373,203
Jul 25, 2020	196.5	153,337	5,795,857
Apr 29, 2023	133.2	200,550	4,094,995
Feb 18, 2021	57.5	36,382	463,257
Jun 24, 2019	64.2	26,532	426,058

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.