Orange County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Orange County, Texas had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.46 times the US outage time per person and 7.14 times the Texas rate. It ranks 1 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

293 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 84% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2017, reached 30,535 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 292.8 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	134,493	101	1
2016	179,326	98	2
2017	3,518,095	81	6
2018	27,872	17	1
2019	210,588	50	2
2020	6,645,739	104	10
2021	434,436	92	7
2022	249,887	118	6
2023	835,520	114	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
Aug 29, 2017	292.8	30,535	3,380,494
Aug 26, 2020	88.8	38,709	2,767,942
Aug 30, 2020	133.5	36,242	2,577,584
Oct 9, 2020	33.8	29,220	703,880
Jan 24, 2023	27.0	17,619	343,970

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.