Waller County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Waller County, Texas had 54 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

6.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

101 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 96,048 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.5 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	59,778	59	1
2016	182,991	52	3
2017	14,836	16	0
2018	29,544	48	1
2019	39,074	32	0
2020	56,812	46	1
2021	4,109,688	444	13
2022	591,596	578	15
2023	1,035,072	552	20

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	80.5	96,048	3,164,559
Sep 14, 2021	100.8	31,129	508,704
Jun 22, 2023	91.2	14,388	243,292
Jun 8, 2023	34.0	11,336	99,557
Aug 24, 2023	21.2	9,948	90,723

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.