Nacogdoches County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Nacogdoches County, Texas had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.01 times the US outage time per person and 2.22 times the Texas rate. It ranks 40 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 12,641 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 110.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	98,048	62	3
2016	0	0	0
2017	2,224	2	0
2018	78,548	55	2
2019	186,587	41	8
2020	122,444	76	4
2021	1,860,632	85	8
2022	334,309	93	8
2023	225,775	78	5

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 18, 2021	110.2	12,641	802,799
Feb 15, 2021	78.5	16,762	490,356
Jan 11, 2021	57.2	12,447	340,138
Apr 13, 2022	46.0	5,385	118,685
May 9, 2021	28.0	5,213	76,711

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.