Gonzales County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gonzales County, Texas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.63 times the US outage time per person and 0.70 times the Texas rate. It ranks 143 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Mayhardest months

August and May made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 26, 2017, reached 4,474 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.2 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	17,238	34	0
2016	9,284	28	0
2017	96,497	33	2
2018	19,391	27	0
2019	19,610	40	0
2020	22,471	35	1
2021	41,573	44	3
2022	20,378	24	1
2023	33,007	33	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
Aug 26, 2017	29.2	4,474	49,303
Aug 27, 2017	43.2	1,000	21,288
Feb 17, 2021	25.8	973	10,654
May 26, 2018	6.5	1,956	10,579
Sep 29, 2017	4.8	1,461	6,940

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.