Howard County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.00 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the Texas rate. It ranks 102 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 8,061 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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	43,932	16	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	208	1	0
2018	64,501	32	2
2019	57,838	53	1
2020	48,342	30	2
2021	388,881	45	6
2022	47,110	33	4
2023	28,628	29	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
Feb 14, 2021	93.5	8,061	328,277
May 7, 2018	17.5	4,529	42,520
Jan 3, 2015	51.8	1,858	33,488
Oct 28, 2020	19.5	2,012	12,985
May 29, 2021	14.0	696	9,735

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.