Hutchinson County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hutchinson County, Texas had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.08 times the US outage time per person and 1.19 times the Texas rate. It ranks 94 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

120 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Octhardest months

March and October made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 13, 2019, reached 6,862 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	56,386	33	0
2016	16,816	18	0
2017	12,602	8	1
2018	17,987	23	0
2019	152,669	23	1
2020	112,172	17	1
2021	57,725	19	1
2022	24,056	17	0
2023	17,214	20	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
Mar 13, 2019	46.8	6,862	130,274
Oct 28, 2020	119.8	1,998	92,548
Mar 17, 2021	29.0	4,204	38,902
Jun 12, 2015	7.8	3,255	12,661
Aug 29, 2015	3.0	2,591	7,770

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.