Zapata County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Zapata County, Texas had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.22 times the US outage time per person and 2.46 times the Texas rate. It ranks 35 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 6,300 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.0 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	27,233	20	1
2016	0	0	0
2017	193	1	0
2018	10,551	12	0
2019	42,145	13	1
2020	76,313	16	1
2021	471,254	17	3
2022	35,000	19	0
2023	12,881	10	0

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	79.0	6,300	354,263
Feb 18, 2021	30.5	3,963	59,103
May 26, 2020	40.0	3,885	56,828
May 12, 2021	23.0	1,691	25,794
Aug 24, 2019	10.5	2,837	17,469

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.