McCulloch County, Texas Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

McCulloch County, Texas had 3 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.19 times the US outage time per person and 1.32 times the Texas rate. It ranks 86 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.5major outages per year

2 of 6years with a major outage

33 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 2,220 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 33.2 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
2018	6,376	4	0
2019	6,982	5	0
2020	11,284	8	0
2021	84,788	10	2
2022	12,150	9	1
2023	8,660	14	0

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	33.2	2,220	44,644
Feb 16, 2021	16.0	2,253	33,818
Jun 23, 2020	5.5	1,470	5,605
Feb 17, 2021	4.5	1,437	4,868
May 24, 2022	8.2	867	4,802

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.