Montgomery County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Montgomery County, Texas had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 1.41 times the Texas rate. It ranks 76 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 135,412 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.2 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	681,617	396	0
2016	2,231,743	297	2
2017	1,219,881	228	1
2018	586,672	316	2
2019	1,649,183	400	6
2020	2,843,091	417	5
2021	6,755,160	749	8
2022	1,984,423	868	6
2023	3,098,320	730	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 15, 2021	84.2	135,412	4,749,542
Aug 27, 2020	24.5	115,841	1,758,077
May 26, 2016	76.8	31,003	1,304,615
Jun 22, 2023	94.2	64,824	930,967
Aug 27, 2017	113.2	22,109	652,048

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.