Power Outages in Cameron County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Cameron County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.2 hours.
Cameron County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Cameron County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Special Weather StatementMODERATE
Cameron County has been under 2 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×1
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Cameron County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Brownsvilleno active outage
- Harlingenno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Cameron County went about 2.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 43,776 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 43,776 customers out) · decade average 3.3 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 478 | 19,642 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | 412 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 291 | 2,702 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 718 | 11,419 | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 736 | 15,678 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 669 | 28,057 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 625 | 43,776 | 13.8 |
| 2022 | 617 | 9,910 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 739 | 19,786 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 720 | 9,339 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 719 | 12,812 | 2.2 |
Very High hurricanes exposure · 3.3 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Cameron County: FAQ
- How often does Cameron County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Cameron County, TX logged 719 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Cameron County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 43,776 customers without power, beginning February 12, 2021 and lasting about 8d 14h.
- Is there a power outage in Cameron County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Cameron County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Brownsville, Harlingen. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Cameron County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Cameron County.
78520, 78521, 78526, 78535, 78550, 78552, 78559, 78566, 78567, 78575, 78578, 78583, 78586, 78592, 78593, 78597
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48061 and /api/v1/counties/48061/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).