Wilbarger County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wilbarger County, Texas had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.86 times the US outage time per person and 0.96 times the Texas rate. It ranks 123 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 27, 2020, reached 3,541 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 63.8 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	21,652	4	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	655	1	0
2018	24,786	19	2
2019	10,263	15	0
2020	132,469	17	3
2021	25,831	17	0
2022	18,202	9	1
2023	2,772	9	0

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
Oct 27, 2020	63.8	3,541	89,258
Oct 30, 2020	42.5	397	12,619
May 5, 2022	18.2	935	12,440
May 8, 2015	6.5	5,466	12,154
Mar 1, 2021	4.0	4,032	9,987

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.