Probability distribution of the total number of wind-induced line failures N p as generated by the probabilistic line failure model for each of the seven recent TCs hitting Texas. The storms are categorized according to the SaffirSimpson scale (number in brackets behind the storms names), and tropical storms that did not reach hurricane strength at landfall are denoted by TS. TCs are sorted according to the means of the distributions p , which are indicated as solid vertical lines. The mean numbers of damaged lines for Hurricane Harvey (105) and Hurricane Ike (90) are very close to the reported numbers in the high-voltage (115 kv to 500 kV) transmission grid (106 for Harvey and about 97 for Ike).
