Morris County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.29 times the US outage time per person and 2.53 times the Texas rate. It ranks 31 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

161 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 3,252 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 161.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	67,280	16	2
2016	1,754	5	0
2017	10,056	6	0
2018	52,547	19	2
2019	59,622	40	2
2020	69,200	19	4
2021	19,558	21	0
2022	58,123	19	1
2023	275,316	25	3

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 16, 2023	161.2	3,252	257,103
Nov 5, 2022	48.8	1,877	43,108
May 25, 2015	39.5	1,779	42,858
Apr 25, 2020	42.0	2,176	37,804
Jun 20, 2019	25.5	1,452	22,836

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.