Brooks County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Brooks County, Texas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.77 times the US outage time per person and 1.96 times the Texas rate. It ranks 46 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 1,396 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

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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	28,496	7	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	16,654	7	1
2018	9,190	8	0
2019	21,165	17	1
2020	76,127	23	2
2021	86,164	16	2
2022	11,540	13	0
2023	13,560	9	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	68.2	1,396	67,926
Jul 26, 2020	48.2	2,313	48,182
May 12, 2015	36.5	867	16,255
Dec 8, 2017	17.2	1,254	12,078
May 16, 2020	8.8	1,231	8,734

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.