Gray County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.97 times the US outage time per person and 1.07 times the Texas rate. It ranks 105 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

136 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 28, 2020, reached 10,717 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 136.5 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	19,787	15	1
2016	1,950	6	0
2017	31,620	6	1
2018	15,770	8	0
2019	15,050	8	1
2020	327,729	12	2
2021	18,486	10	1
2022	5,849	5	0
2023	9,009	16	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
Oct 28, 2020	136.5	10,717	303,909
Aug 6, 2017	15.0	6,232	26,030
Nov 2, 2020	52.5	603	19,862
Jun 23, 2018	5.0	7,386	9,130
Feb 16, 2021	7.0	2,270	7,505

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.