Polk County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Polk County, Texas had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.92 times the US outage time per person and 1.02 times the Texas rate. It ranks 112 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Febhardest months

April and February made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 23, 2020, reached 1,894 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.8 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,323	12	0
2016	17,165	12	0
2017	237,612	112	4
2018	55,038	50	3
2019	45,134	53	1
2020	243,076	48	8
2021	184,050	72	6
2022	97,460	87	2
2023	213,473	80	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
Apr 23, 2020	47.8	1,894	74,820
Sep 1, 2017	21.8	3,236	67,005
Apr 27, 2023	45.0	6,686	66,718
Feb 15, 2021	23.0	6,939	66,320
Apr 22, 2020	21.5	4,246	59,752

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.