Lavaca County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lavaca County, Texas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 1.05 times the Texas rate. It ranks 108 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

54 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 3,436 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 54.0 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	25,580	37	0
2016	16,492	15	0
2017	77,038	16	2
2018	16,252	15	0
2019	14,173	20	0
2020	10,687	24	0
2021	204,794	31	4
2022	11,930	18	0
2023	52,024	31	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 14, 2021	54.0	3,436	107,602
Feb 17, 2021	36.0	4,674	61,448
Aug 26, 2017	35.0	1,974	40,187
Aug 27, 2017	44.5	852	23,575
May 19, 2021	13.2	1,758	9,906

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.