Lee County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lee County, Texas had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.99 times the US outage time per person and 1.10 times the Texas rate. It ranks 103 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

67 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aprhardest months

February and April made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 1, 2023, reached 3,175 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.0 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	19,663	23	0
2016	34,385	23	2
2017	20,798	25	0
2018	4,537	10	0
2019	10,807	24	0
2020	10,120	9	0
2021	157,368	61	2
2022	19,484	22	0
2023	125,516	33	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
Feb 1, 2023	67.0	3,175	103,756
Feb 16, 2021	11.8	3,512	38,746
Feb 15, 2021	8.8	4,426	26,221
Apr 30, 2016	11.0	2,877	14,798
Feb 16, 2021	4.0	3,513	10,517

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.