Wood County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wood County, Texas had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.40 times the US outage time per person and 2.66 times the Texas rate. It ranks 26 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

155 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 16,355 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 155.0 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	29,022	22	1
2016	30,028	18	2
2017	19,258	23	0
2018	43,462	22	1
2019	423,400	84	6
2020	606,674	117	2
2021	204,831	95	6
2022	203,460	119	5
2023	1,015,444	113	5

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	155.0	16,355	762,277
Apr 12, 2020	70.2	18,884	365,585
Jun 19, 2019	60.0	14,763	156,794
Aug 18, 2019	9.8	23,440	96,681
Jan 31, 2023	52.0	3,338	50,495

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.