Upshur County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Upshur County, Texas had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.57 times the US outage time per person and 3.95 times the Texas rate. It ranks 8 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

177 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 23,857 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 177.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Texas counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	44,440	25	2
2016	23,227	15	0
2017	53,750	18	1
2018	43,322	25	1
2019	384,772	76	4
2020	548,289	88	5
2021	271,312	119	6
2022	355,123	116	6
2023	1,737,964	93	6

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
Jun 16, 2023	177.0	23,857	1,596,420
Apr 13, 2020	73.2	12,738	436,495
Jun 19, 2019	59.8	7,633	113,336
May 8, 2019	52.0	6,654	99,765
Mar 23, 2022	60.5	2,540	72,594

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.