Erath County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Erath County, Texas had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.15 times the US outage time per person and 1.27 times the Texas rate. It ranks 88 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

124 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 77% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 21, 2018, reached 8,826 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 123.5 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	25,360	14	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	1,772	2	0
2018	516,240	39	1
2019	72,946	50	3
2020	49,823	50	1
2021	364,322	40	3
2022	32,584	49	0
2023	62,286	55	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 21, 2018	123.5	8,826	486,444
Feb 15, 2021	79.0	8,609	322,221
Oct 21, 2019	14.8	4,707	16,993
Sep 1, 2020	10.2	2,784	15,630
Jan 10, 2021	17.0	1,567	13,498

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.