Rusk County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rusk County, Texas had 65 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.74 times the US outage time per person and 3.03 times the Texas rate. It ranks 16 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

83 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 10, 2021, reached 12,312 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 73.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

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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	488,242	60	7
2016	62,876	59	1
2017	132,668	62	6
2018	142,122	77	4
2019	294,397	80	10
2020	257,735	102	6
2021	660,479	111	10
2022	422,036	117	13
2023	760,134	120	8

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
Jan 10, 2021	73.0	12,312	349,059
Jun 23, 2023	49.0	12,571	299,322
May 25, 2015	39.5	7,998	236,360
Jun 16, 2023	83.0	6,024	223,480
May 27, 2015	18.5	4,013	70,545

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.