Cooke County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cooke County, Texas had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.37 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the Texas rate. It ranks 70 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 15,729 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	13,276	5	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	7,559	7	0
2018	39,512	29	2
2019	38,893	38	1
2020	184,565	41	3
2021	887,165	38	1
2022	73,026	54	3
2023	85,589	54	3

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	78.5	15,729	841,604
May 23, 2020	31.5	9,216	130,059
Jul 20, 2022	18.5	4,772	26,477
Apr 10, 2021	58.0	398	21,026
Feb 21, 2018	12.2	3,044	19,325

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.