Brown County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Brown County, Texas had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 1.03 times the Texas rate. It ranks 111 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 7,476 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.8 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	10,801	11	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	55,171	42	2
2019	68,195	48	2
2020	78,695	33	2
2021	478,388	49	6
2022	57,572	46	3
2023	40,150	41	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	78.8	7,476	312,045
Jan 1, 2021	27.8	2,832	52,472
Jan 10, 2021	27.0	3,978	40,134
Sep 1, 2020	18.8	4,794	33,969
Jul 4, 2021	9.0	1,639	14,745

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.