Kaufman County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kaufman County, Texas had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Texas rate. It ranks 168 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 26,786 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.8 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	47,036	35	0
2016	183	1	0
2017	138,090	40	1
2018	66,062	85	1
2019	210,218	106	4
2020	152,302	110	3
2021	753,764	109	1
2022	291,228	120	1
2023	170,551	108	3

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	79.8	26,786	612,125
May 16, 2022	26.5	23,737	146,269
Apr 29, 2017	47.5	5,974	82,169
May 18, 2019	18.8	6,940	40,977
Feb 2, 2023	22.8	3,268	34,493

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.