Comanche County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Comanche County, Texas had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.30 times the US outage time per person and 2.54 times the Texas rate. It ranks 30 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 8,085 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.5 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	491	3	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	186	1	0
2018	29,798	30	2
2019	90,558	44	2
2020	20,470	16	0
2021	539,953	28	4
2022	19,482	25	1
2023	25,206	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	79.5	8,085	449,868
Jun 27, 2019	21.0	2,159	39,419
Jan 10, 2021	28.0	3,984	32,890
Jan 1, 2021	29.8	682	14,350
Apr 29, 2021	14.8	2,130	14,176

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.