Reeves County, Texas Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.14 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the Texas rate. It ranks 90 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

0.5major outages per year

3 of 6years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 1,417 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.8 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
2018	11,680	14	0
2019	21,374	25	1
2020	9,268	14	0
2021	71,744	16	1
2022	34,994	22	0
2023	50,524	37	1

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	67.8	1,417	65,163
May 24, 2022	7.5	2,522	9,816
Aug 16, 2023	4.5	1,157	5,191
Jan 23, 2023	8.5	584	4,890
Nov 26, 2022	7.8	708	4,686

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.