Deaf Smith County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Deaf Smith County, Texas had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 1.05 times the Texas rate. It ranks 108 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

41 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Julhardest months

October and July made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 5, 2021, reached 1,741 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.8 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	8,775	7	0
2016	9,111	4	0
2017	3,565	5	1
2018	583	2	0
2019	34,764	14	1
2020	63,434	62	2
2021	161,593	69	5
2022	56,953	61	2
2023	48,105	70	2

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 5, 2021	19.8	1,741	33,800
Mar 13, 2019	33.2	1,120	25,074
Jul 15, 2021	13.5	1,754	23,679
Jul 1, 2021	14.0	1,902	23,056
Oct 23, 2021	41.2	400	16,421

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.