Moore County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Moore County, Texas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.22 times the US outage time per person and 1.35 times the Texas rate. It ranks 81 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

118 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 11,418 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 118.5 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	32,290	30	1
2016	13,471	17	0
2017	95,181	31	1
2018	20,149	21	0
2019	135,230	18	1
2020	189,941	16	2
2021	61,241	14	3
2022	13,136	14	0
2023	26,689	22	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
Oct 29, 2020	118.5	11,418	179,930
Mar 13, 2019	48.2	5,957	119,958
Apr 30, 2017	32.0	3,940	44,235
Feb 16, 2021	8.2	4,178	26,954
Mar 17, 2021	12.2	3,212	14,734

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.