Grimes County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Grimes County, Texas had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.50 times the US outage time per person and 1.66 times the Texas rate. It ranks 66 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 9,116 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.5 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	112,211	67	1
2016	170,580	49	2
2017	17,916	21	0
2018	67,838	21	3
2019	103,550	64	2
2020	126,806	67	4
2021	260,496	75	2
2022	103,058	88	1
2023	144,800	91	2

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	36.5	9,116	161,408
May 26, 2016	78.0	4,053	124,025
Jun 17, 2019	20.2	4,207	49,332
Jun 4, 2023	18.5	4,141	33,162
Jun 22, 2023	25.8	3,573	28,065

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.