Panola County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Panola County, Texas had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.13 times the US outage time per person and 2.36 times the Texas rate. It ranks 36 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

95 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 4,464 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.0 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	113,670	10	1
2016	16,126	20	0
2017	154,431	17	2
2018	22,795	29	0
2019	111,699	47	5
2020	106,773	41	5
2021	255,340	50	6
2022	112,290	48	4
2023	186,649	59	2

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
Jun 16, 2023	95.0	4,464	132,779
May 28, 2017	49.8	5,214	115,497
Jan 11, 2021	48.8	5,421	113,521
May 26, 2015	23.5	4,893	101,337
Aug 27, 2020	29.5	5,509	45,451

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.