Hunt County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hunt County, Texas had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 0.74 times the Texas rate. It ranks 137 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

85 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 15,216 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.8 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	17,658	11	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	7,540	8	0
2018	42,521	51	0
2019	140,414	76	3
2020	94,144	77	0
2021	651,476	102	3
2022	496,182	113	2
2023	291,223	92	5

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	84.8	15,216	501,589
Feb 3, 2022	72.0	10,982	324,907
Jun 16, 2023	41.2	12,968	120,377
May 16, 2022	22.5	5,773	44,073
Mar 3, 2023	21.8	4,649	33,037

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.