Mason County, Texas Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

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Mason County, Texas had 3 major outages from 2019 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 5 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

1 of 5years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aprhardest months

February and April made up 84% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 3,022 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	649	1	0
2020	7,876	9	0
2021	118,072	14	3
2022	7,823	10	0
2023	13,697	18	0

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 15, 2021	30.5	3,022	76,837
Feb 12, 2021	46.0	490	21,050
Feb 14, 2021	18.0	725	9,078
Feb 18, 2021	4.8	3,014	4,278
May 24, 2023	3.5	718	2,510

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.
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