Bosque County, Texas Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Bosque County, Texas had 5 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.39 times the US outage time per person and 1.54 times the Texas rate. It ranks 68 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 7years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aprhardest months

February and April made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 7,002 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.0 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	219	2	0
2018	17,661	24	0
2019	42,120	41	1
2020	16,969	30	0
2021	317,780	17	3
2022	22,948	26	0
2023	34,558	30	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	79.0	7,002	250,930
Jan 10, 2021	24.8	3,413	28,096
Apr 29, 2021	9.5	3,807	27,401
Aug 27, 2023	8.8	1,128	9,172
Sep 4, 2023	2.8	4,313	8,370

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.