Travis County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Travis County, Texas had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 1.42 times the Texas rate. It ranks 76 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

179 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 273,849 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 100.2 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	871,751	281	2
2016	590,858	253	0
2017	899,296	290	2
2018	731,691	323	2
2019	800,432	384	1
2020	472,732	306	0
2021	19,098,563	402	6
2022	1,143,881	451	1
2023	13,942,940	543	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
Feb 14, 2021	100.2	273,849	15,778,402
Jan 31, 2023	178.8	185,025	12,765,484
Feb 18, 2021	80.2	68,176	1,331,368
Feb 11, 2021	55.5	32,104	531,146
May 28, 2021	76.5	44,840	523,534

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.