Kent County, Texas Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

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Kent County, Texas had 2 major outages from 2019 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 5 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 5years with a major outage

16 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 22, 2023, reached 387 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	86	1	0
2020	1,304	2	0
2021	6,974	9	1
2022	0	0	0
2023	7,070	2	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
Jun 22, 2023	15.8	387	6,093
Feb 15, 2021	8.2	337	2,780
Apr 29, 2021	4.5	348	1,565
Jun 23, 2023	3.0	358	978
Oct 28, 2020	2.5	384	920

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.
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