Red River County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Red River County, Texas had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.66 times the US outage time per person and 1.84 times the Texas rate. It ranks 55 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 2,938 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

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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	12,946	4	1
2016	906	2	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	8,060	15	0
2019	13,793	17	0
2020	13,967	13	0
2021	237,757	19	2
2022	43,589	16	2
2023	97,115	21	5

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	71.0	2,938	204,956
Jan 31, 2023	55.8	2,173	51,733
Nov 4, 2022	28.0	3,308	26,071
May 4, 2021	13.8	1,179	10,624
Jun 16, 2023	19.5	699	9,013

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.