DeWitt County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

DeWitt County, Texas had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.72 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Texas rate. It ranks 133 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 71% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 2,290 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.0 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	13,888	24	0
2016	6,033	19	0
2017	93,548	13	2
2018	3,878	12	0
2019	11,617	18	1
2020	9,872	25	0
2021	144,166	23	2
2022	23,146	20	2
2023	16,791	21	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
Feb 14, 2021	89.0	2,290	113,369
Aug 26, 2017	35.0	2,750	58,623
Aug 27, 2017	33.8	1,101	23,900
Feb 18, 2021	30.0	1,127	17,294
May 25, 2022	17.0	1,271	10,970

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.