Galveston County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Galveston County, Texas had 36 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.65 times the US outage time per person and 1.82 times the Texas rate. It ranks 56 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

724 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Sephardest months

February and September made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 164,606 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.2 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	132,795	110	0
2016	15,908	8	0
2017	248,859	39	1
2018	296,138	141	0
2019	891,490	176	3
2020	448,564	175	6
2021	8,704,750	522	10
2022	1,093,426	638	10
2023	1,502,282	469	6

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	83.2	164,606	6,486,881
Sep 13, 2021	121.0	57,142	1,245,544
Jun 22, 2023	73.0	28,418	426,096
Jun 7, 2019	723.8	8,234	412,800
Sep 19, 2019	54.8	6,593	246,862

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.