Leon County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Leon County, Texas had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.49 times the US outage time per person and 6.07 times the Texas rate. It ranks 3 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

136 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 1, 2023, reached 6,631 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 136.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	32,417	26	3
2016	674	1	0
2017	6,068	6	0
2018	26,572	18	1
2019	133,754	55	5
2020	119,275	64	1
2021	816,937	79	8
2022	108,944	67	3
2023	772,910	84	9

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	136.0	6,631	371,878
Feb 15, 2021	78.8	8,226	294,319
Jun 21, 2023	74.5	12,100	261,248
Jan 10, 2021	75.0	6,230	247,066
Feb 18, 2021	62.8	4,216	174,401

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.