Lubbock County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lubbock County, Texas had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.25 times the US outage time per person and 0.28 times the Texas rate. It ranks 185 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

125 hrslongest major outage

May, Octhardest months

May and October made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 17, 2020, reached 7,144 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 92.8 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	7,142	9	0
2016	10,565	16	0
2017	24,877	9	0
2018	15,590	12	0
2019	161,090	63	1
2020	1,017,590	180	4
2021	226,531	108	0
2022	87,122	87	1
2023	263,274	120	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
May 17, 2020	92.8	7,144	338,221
Oct 27, 2020	48.2	11,792	132,587
Sep 15, 2023	20.2	12,686	89,895
Jun 5, 2020	30.0	17,108	78,037
Dec 23, 2019	94.5	12,613	68,442

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.