Houston County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Houston County, Texas had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.12 times the US outage time per person and 3.46 times the Texas rate. It ranks 14 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 22, 2022, reached 9,548 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.8 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	11,615	8	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	50,642	23	1
2019	66,945	38	1
2020	203,250	62	5
2021	634,279	75	6
2022	357,770	60	2
2023	201,888	87	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
Mar 22, 2022	68.8	9,548	283,871
Jan 10, 2021	62.8	9,214	233,514
Feb 18, 2021	75.2	4,549	162,682
Feb 17, 2021	23.8	6,087	89,834
Apr 27, 2023	25.5	5,953	77,226

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.