Carson County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carson County, Texas had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.54 times the US outage time per person and 2.81 times the Texas rate. It ranks 21 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 77% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 28, 2020, reached 4,374 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.0 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	14,920	17	0
2016	1,787	4	0
2017	3,015	3	0
2018	11,203	10	1
2019	8,263	4	1
2020	239,699	14	2
2021	18,227	6	1
2022	23,938	10	1
2023	4,083	5	0

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
Oct 28, 2020	126.0	4,374	214,200
Nov 2, 2020	48.2	505	17,010
Mar 17, 2021	14.0	2,204	12,189
Mar 22, 2022	16.8	1,928	11,040
Mar 13, 2019	15.5	618	7,229

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.