Parker County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Parker County, Texas had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.97 times the US outage time per person and 1.07 times the Texas rate. It ranks 105 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

95 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 37,290 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.2 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	79,135	25	3
2016	0	0	0
2017	4,585	7	0
2018	261,324	71	1
2019	246,300	114	5
2020	212,304	118	3
2021	2,414,020	156	5
2022	168,163	174	1
2023	443,042	124	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
Feb 14, 2021	95.2	37,290	2,128,545
Feb 21, 2018	59.2	9,756	178,604
Mar 2, 2023	36.0	18,742	135,305
Sep 9, 2023	25.0	11,150	83,760
Oct 5, 2023	19.8	13,524	82,701

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.