San Jacinto County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

San Jacinto County, Texas had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.35 times the US outage time per person and 2.60 times the Texas rate. It ranks 28 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

99 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2017, reached 4,394 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 99.2 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	88,291	62	0
2016	183,602	30	2
2017	256,098	50	2
2018	81,693	68	3
2019	87,965	76	4
2020	244,110	71	7
2021	303,453	71	5
2022	121,797	95	1
2023	150,959	93	7

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
Aug 27, 2017	99.2	4,394	196,402
Feb 15, 2021	26.2	7,887	90,426
May 26, 2016	67.5	3,447	86,199
Feb 16, 2021	35.8	7,166	78,166
Apr 23, 2020	47.8	1,748	71,569

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.