City of Lubbock, TX
How often City of Lubbock goes out
Texas's record with City of Lubbock: 1.7 outages in the most recent filing year, 1.8 hours without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 51% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 65 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Lubbock customers need a generator
Serving 110,000 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - City of Lubbock's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
How City of Lubbock's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Lubbock files with federal regulators every year - serving 110,000 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.