Potter County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Potter County, Texas had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.62 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Texas rate. It ranks 145 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 14,440 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.5 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	116,804	86	0
2016	46,343	50	0
2017	80,357	46	1
2018	91,786	59	0
2019	489,026	45	2
2020	225,692	52	2
2021	216,303	41	2
2022	118,646	45	1
2023	171,667	133	2

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
Mar 13, 2019	77.5	14,440	421,106
Oct 28, 2020	54.5	6,795	112,049
Feb 16, 2021	8.8	17,946	81,184
Mar 17, 2021	15.8	8,997	65,934
Mar 22, 2022	34.0	5,308	62,613

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.