Starr County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Starr County, Texas had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 1.06 times the Texas rate. It ranks 107 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 10,236 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	77,274	48	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	1,224	2	0
2018	70,298	56	0
2019	70,988	48	0
2020	413,766	58	2
2021	597,457	59	2
2022	59,213	35	1
2023	119,256	46	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
Feb 15, 2021	79.0	10,236	499,261
Jul 26, 2020	93.5	10,726	310,278
Apr 29, 2023	16.5	4,327	32,485
May 24, 2022	18.2	2,050	20,155
May 12, 2015	7.5	6,979	19,781

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.