City of Denton, TX
How often City of Denton goes out
Outages at City of Denton are uncommon. Texas customers on this grid saw 0.2 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 48 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 79% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Denton looks like
Outages here average 3.3 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 65,183 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Denton customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Denton files with federal regulators every year - serving 65,183 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.