Randall County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Randall County, Texas had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Texas rate. It ranks 180 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Febhardest months

March and February made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 9,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	122,740	72	1
2016	65,458	60	0
2017	58,127	27	1
2018	43,614	62	0
2019	299,026	50	1
2020	89,628	31	1
2021	133,837	42	2
2022	136,558	54	2
2023	157,202	78	1

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	75.2	9,719	247,426
Feb 26, 2023	41.0	4,095	84,601
Mar 22, 2022	38.2	4,734	69,955
Feb 16, 2021	8.2	13,903	60,406
Oct 28, 2020	52.0	3,650	54,885

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.