Gaines County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gaines County, Texas had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Texas rate. It ranks 157 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Octhardest months

June and October made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 19, 2020, reached 1,244 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 42.5 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	18,918	25	0
2016	13,766	17	0
2017	4,282	11	0
2018	52,292	24	2
2019	26,690	34	1
2020	70,024	19	3
2021	18,754	22	0
2022	14,057	23	0
2023	42,159	41	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
Jun 19, 2020	42.5	1,244	30,684
Oct 28, 2020	34.5	1,423	23,877
Jun 4, 2018	16.5	2,103	15,368
Sep 1, 2018	10.2	2,602	12,579
Mar 13, 2019	16.2	919	11,786

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.