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Texas Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 3,047 customers are currently without power across 7 counties in Texas.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

Not mapped to a county964

MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Jeff Davis County845.5h/cust
  2. 2Terrell County806.3h/cust
  3. 3Presidio County671.4h/cust
  4. 4Brewster County649.2h/cust
  5. 5Hudspeth County171.2h/cust
  6. 6Edwards County142.0h/cust
  7. 7Culberson County134.7h/cust
  8. 8Knox County115.6h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
Texas
3,047
AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 4,761
Updated July 18, 2026
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Cost of power in Texas

▲ 39% since 2010

What Texaspays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
17.0¢
per kWh
Commercial
8.3¢
per kWh
Industrial
6.3¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
11.6¢201011.1¢201111.0¢201211.3¢201311.9¢201411.6¢201511.0¢201611.0¢201711.2¢201811.8¢201911.7¢202012.1¢202113.8¢202214.5¢202315.0¢202415.5¢202516.1¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

HoustonHARRIS COUNTY1,877PasadenaHARRIS COUNTY1,877BaytownHARRIS COUNTY1,877ConroeMONTGOMERY COUNTY92PearlandBRAZORIA COUNTY89Sugar LandFORT BEND COUNTY15Missouri CityFORT BEND COUNTY15FulshearFORT BEND COUNTY15

A decade of outages in Texas

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

1.9h20151.2h20161.6h20172.4h20184.9h20195.3h202021.0h20214.0h20228.1h202325.5h20244.6h2025

Texas's worst year on record was 2024 (peak 1,660,703 customers out) · decade average 7.3 hrs per customer/yr.

See how Texas ranks against every state →

What causes outages in Texas

Share of outage-time by reported cause, aggregated across all counties.

Planned / maintenance
100%

A reported cause is available for 19.8% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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  • — · - Weather or natural disaster0
  • — · - Failure at high voltage substation or switchyard - Other
  • — · - Transmission equipment failure0
  • November 29, 2023 · - Physical attack - Vandalism - Suspicious activity0
  • November 17, 2023 · - Unknown0
  • November 1, 2023 · - Physical attack0

Electric providers in Texas

All Texas counties