Smith County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Smith County, Texas had 53 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.57 times the US outage time per person and 1.73 times the Texas rate. It ranks 63 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

153 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Febhardest months

January and February made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 31, 2023, reached 42,079 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 129.5 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	353,234	117	6
2016	1,446	3	0
2017	16,228	19	0
2018	278,301	177	2
2019	650,656	179	11
2020	630,700	199	6
2021	2,534,628	202	9
2022	1,369,832	234	11
2023	2,752,614	222	8

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
Jan 31, 2023	129.5	42,079	1,756,875
Feb 15, 2021	82.5	42,339	1,541,014
Apr 13, 2022	48.2	33,192	500,142
Jan 10, 2021	59.0	18,487	416,557
Jun 16, 2023	152.8	8,146	259,636

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.