Scurry County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Scurry County, Texas had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.45 times the Texas rate. It ranks 171 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 16, 2021, reached 942 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.8 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
2015	4,986	10	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	8,440	4	1
2019	28,154	14	2
2020	16,074	21	1
2021	62,027	21	3
2022	9,443	13	1
2023	15,906	21	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 16, 2021	29.8	942	19,890
Mar 13, 2019	19.2	1,983	15,916
Feb 15, 2021	20.8	940	15,745
May 17, 2021	3.5	1,893	5,943
Oct 25, 2021	14.0	545	5,105

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.