Medina County, Texas Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Medina County, Texas had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.13 times the US outage time per person and 2.35 times the Texas rate. It ranks 36 of 189 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aprhardest months

February and April made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 14, 2021, reached 20,977 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.2 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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1.5M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	395,896	223	1
2016	408,275	188	0
2017	136,208	63	0
2018	63,123	55	1
2019	36,528	31	0
2020	99,000	74	1
2021	1,286,138	58	7
2022	67,562	66	1
2023	110,839	63	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 14, 2021	88.2	20,977	998,631
Apr 29, 2021	72.2	9,388	200,303
May 25, 2020	18.8	5,765	32,611
Apr 20, 2023	15.5	3,880	28,003
Sep 19, 2021	5.0	5,755	13,803

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.