Bell County, Texas Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Bell County, Texas had 27 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.07 times the US outage time per person and 1.19 times the Texas rate. It ranks 95 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

5 of 7years with a major outage

166 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 53,031 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 166.0 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
2017	1,362	2	0
2018	177,726	135	0
2019	431,960	138	9
2020	236,380	107	2
2021	4,669,221	185	8
2022	475,572	132	5
2023	1,354,315	122	3

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 11, 2021	166.0	53,031	3,138,248
Feb 1, 2023	134.8	24,735	1,032,283
Feb 18, 2021	83.0	24,828	969,381
Oct 25, 2022	32.0	16,241	175,357
Sep 29, 2021	22.0	19,339	129,462

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.