Webb County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Webb County, Texas had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.62 times the Texas rate. It ranks 150 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 27,928 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.5 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	102,215	58	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	32,318	8	1
2018	248,144	106	1
2019	163,125	105	0
2020	246,691	102	2
2021	2,181,026	105	3
2022	144,182	97	0
2023	236,810	96	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	79.5	27,928	1,776,430
May 18, 2021	43.0	16,068	175,938
Feb 18, 2021	25.8	5,357	54,984
May 21, 2020	27.5	9,034	40,381
Jan 1, 2018	13.0	5,822	36,657

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.