Callahan County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Callahan County, Texas had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.06 times the US outage time per person and 1.17 times the Texas rate. It ranks 98 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 3,715 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 63.8 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	11,320	13	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	11,942	14	0
2019	52,652	27	2
2020	29,302	33	1
2021	164,347	25	2
2022	27,107	26	1
2023	43,765	20	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	63.8	3,715	115,780
Jan 1, 2021	32.5	2,484	35,453
Jun 2, 2023	18.2	3,552	22,167
Apr 23, 2019	13.0	1,344	14,561
Jun 23, 2019	10.8	2,266	14,305

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.