Ector County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ector County, Texas had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the Texas rate. It ranks 129 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 28,468 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 85.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	507,190	88	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	6,577	8	0
2018	247,355	147	5
2019	298,756	147	5
2020	124,088	120	0
2021	1,296,277	111	5
2022	216,704	107	6
2023	173,278	127	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	85.8	28,468	1,096,444
Jan 2, 2015	98.5	10,579	355,450
Mar 13, 2019	29.2	10,115	66,886
Oct 6, 2018	15.2	7,019	44,322
Aug 19, 2021	12.5	8,364	32,347

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.