Jackson County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jackson County, Texas had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 1.05 times the Texas rate. It ranks 108 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 1,888 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	14,863	14	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	968	1	0
2018	16,004	7	0
2019	22,348	12	0
2020	33,806	12	0
2021	172,168	12	4
2022	16,210	11	0
2023	43,769	14	1

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	84.2	1,888	110,392
Sep 28, 2021	8.8	4,060	29,902
Sep 26, 2023	11.5	2,991	24,988
May 19, 2021	9.2	1,460	9,200
Jul 10, 2019	3.0	2,937	8,492

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.