Tyler County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.27 times the US outage time per person and 3.61 times the Texas rate. It ranks 11 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2017, reached 12,604 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 105.8 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	113,640	38	1
2016	106,278	26	2
2017	644,761	76	6
2018	41,249	52	0
2019	33,370	42	0
2020	177,141	44	7
2021	93,220	56	5
2022	81,447	58	2
2023	186,644	54	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
Aug 29, 2017	105.8	12,604	503,950
Aug 27, 2020	38.2	5,743	110,898
Apr 27, 2023	19.5	8,795	83,428
Apr 27, 2016	33.8	2,954	52,350
Jun 11, 2023	11.8	3,202	27,432

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.