Walker County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.25 times the US outage time per person and 1.38 times the Texas rate. It ranks 78 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

78 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Febhardest months

April and February made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 12,121 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.5 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	211,280	95	4
2016	57,507	53	1
2017	238,797	74	4
2018	136,647	66	2
2019	93,889	96	0
2020	371,343	111	5
2021	554,637	113	6
2022	231,496	135	1
2023	408,134	183	8

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	78.5	12,121	368,868
Apr 9, 2020	42.0	17,024	186,185
Aug 27, 2017	53.5	5,769	126,133
May 23, 2023	67.2	4,953	100,996
Mar 18, 2018	45.5	6,288	77,835

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.