Trinity County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Trinity County, Texas had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.44 times the US outage time per person and 4.91 times the Texas rate. It ranks 5 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Febhardest months

April and February made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 6,205 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.2 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	20,968	24	0
2016	29,697	14	1
2017	82,697	22	4
2018	79,814	57	1
2019	129,500	49	2
2020	308,332	61	6
2021	438,711	58	6
2022	159,512	84	3
2023	166,828	87	3

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	75.2	6,205	254,210
Apr 22, 2020	21.5	5,372	80,134
Apr 23, 2020	47.8	2,533	75,880
Apr 13, 2019	30.5	3,202	52,184
Apr 27, 2023	22.0	8,550	49,768

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.