Shelby County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Shelby County, Texas had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.99 times the Texas rate. It ranks 118 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2020, reached 3,727 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.2 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	20,329	7	0
2016	8,663	9	0
2017	31,668	20	2
2018	21,046	13	2
2019	23,628	21	1
2020	128,667	26	3
2021	111,799	16	3
2022	32,081	15	1
2023	97,520	14	4

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, 2020	56.2	3,727	88,648
Jun 16, 2023	42.8	3,770	73,774
Feb 17, 2021	20.5	2,567	36,302
Feb 18, 2021	32.2	2,061	34,325
Jan 11, 2021	39.2	2,097	26,793

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.