Childress County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Childress County, Texas had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.10 times the US outage time per person and 1.21 times the Texas rate. It ranks 93 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 28, 2020, reached 2,919 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.0 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	3,821	2	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	2,138	7	0
2019	2,443	5	0
2020	79,502	12	1
2021	71,888	6	1
2022	456	1	0
2023	950	3	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	40.0	2,919	57,649
Feb 15, 2021	68.0	1,018	56,402
Sep 30, 2021	4.8	2,831	10,021
Oct 28, 2020	3.2	2,891	9,203
Sep 16, 2020	3.0	2,772	8,108

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.