Kleberg County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kleberg County, Texas had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 1.33 times the Texas rate. It ranks 84 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

82 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 7, 2019, reached 10,974 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 63.2 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
2015	74,906	13	3
2016	0	0	0
2017	19,090	12	1
2018	43,270	24	0
2019	307,192	36	1
2020	119,509	38	3
2021	151,786	38	2
2022	26,209	26	0
2023	62,365	28	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
Jun 7, 2019	63.2	10,974	259,277
Feb 15, 2021	82.0	2,030	77,230
Jul 25, 2020	29.8	4,225	67,411
Apr 14, 2015	14.2	7,148	31,129
May 12, 2015	8.8	3,938	20,508

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.