Kerr County, Texas Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

Kerr County, Texas had 11 major outages from 2018 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.71 times the US outage time per person and 3.00 times the Texas rate. It ranks 17 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 6 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

3 of 6years with a major outage

162 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 90% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 24,388 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 162.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2018	1,402	5	0
2019	30,229	18	0
2020	214,575	34	4
2021	1,747,828	43	5
2022	63,668	60	0
2023	86,709	54	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 11, 2021	162.5	24,388	1,257,702
Feb 23, 2021	126.8	3,261	166,048
Feb 20, 2021	90.2	2,548	162,477
Feb 18, 2021	29.8	4,443	102,086
May 28, 2020	42.8	4,500	70,178

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.