Madison County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison County, Texas had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.47 times the US outage time per person and 2.74 times the Texas rate. It ranks 24 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 22, 2023, reached 5,319 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	50,586	15	2
2016	2,304	4	0
2017	12,023	11	0
2018	5,884	5	0
2019	123,694	37	3
2020	38,180	37	0
2021	223,056	46	6
2022	176,451	44	2
2023	122,761	38	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
Jun 22, 2023	26.2	5,319	90,517
Mar 22, 2022	50.5	4,497	78,907
Apr 13, 2019	31.5	4,093	68,681
Feb 17, 2021	25.0	5,317	53,125
Jan 10, 2021	29.0	3,480	41,292

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.