Bowie County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bowie County, Texas had 49 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 1.33 times the Texas rate. It ranks 84 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

73 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Mayhardest months

April and May made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 10, 2021, reached 14,559 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.2 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	142,152	102	2
2016	383,661	69	8
2017	73,934	67	1
2018	248,741	135	6
2019	270,458	156	5
2020	255,822	102	5
2021	381,424	103	5
2022	388,386	105	9
2023	292,883	132	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
Apr 10, 2021	67.2	14,559	213,431
Nov 5, 2022	73.0	8,154	187,650
May 10, 2016	40.2	10,460	141,012
Jun 18, 2023	61.5	4,121	74,216
May 8, 2020	37.2	5,036	48,665

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.