Lynn County, Texas Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Lynn County, Texas had 8 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.40 times the US outage time per person and 2.66 times the Texas rate. It ranks 26 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

107 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 28, 2020, reached 4,549 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.0 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
2017	2,269	2	0
2018	5,071	4	0
2019	34,366	17	1
2020	127,638	27	2
2021	47,918	11	4
2022	6,370	20	0
2023	21,258	24	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
Oct 28, 2020	107.0	4,549	98,839
Mar 13, 2019	26.2	661	14,563
Jun 27, 2021	22.8	736	12,883
Feb 14, 2021	8.2	2,239	12,553
Feb 16, 2021	8.0	2,997	11,510

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.