Karnes County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Karnes County, Texas had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 0.64 times the Texas rate. It ranks 148 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

85 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 1,594 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

25K

50K

75K

100K

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	9,276	12	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	825	2	0
2018	12,644	15	0
2019	14,027	14	0
2020	7,840	15	0
2021	99,154	20	1
2022	22,676	12	1
2023	25,590	21	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

20%

40%

60%

80%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 15, 2021	84.8	1,594	80,614
May 25, 2022	14.2	2,859	13,656
May 23, 2023	5.0	1,011	5,055
Apr 6, 2023	5.2	875	4,546
May 22, 2023	1.8	2,457	4,300

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.