Cherokee County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cherokee County, Texas had 51 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.27 times the US outage time per person and 2.51 times the Texas rate. It ranks 32 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

May, Febhardest months

May and February made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 12,169 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.5 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	502,895	74	6
2016	0	0	0
2017	18,746	7	1
2018	61,087	39	2
2019	191,389	99	7
2020	143,751	79	6
2021	779,689	89	9
2022	371,829	93	10
2023	587,014	137	10

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	73.5	12,169	315,929
Jan 10, 2021	71.5	8,489	263,309
May 25, 2015	38.0	8,595	231,801
Sep 25, 2023	46.0	8,451	145,862
Apr 13, 2022	48.5	6,187	134,178

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.