Power Outages in Hidalgo County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Hidalgo County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.5 hours.
Hidalgo County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Hidalgo 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.
No active NWS alerts for Hidalgo County right now.
Hidalgo County has been under 1 National Weather Service alert recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 12, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Hidalgo County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- McAllenno active outage
- Edinburgno active outage
- Missionno active outage
- Pharrno active outage
- Weslacono active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Hidalgo County went about 2.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 200,550 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 124,336 customers out) · decade average 3.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 457 | 26,698 | 0.9 |
| 2017 | 498 | 4,392 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 542 | 9,599 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 554 | 26,532 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 536 | 153,337 | 8.8 |
| 2021 | 450 | 124,336 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 406 | 14,659 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 440 | 200,550 | 7.4 |
| 2024 | 490 | 16,978 | 1.3 |
| 2025 | 414 | 61,152 | 2.5 |
Very High hurricanes exposure · 3.8 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 Hidalgo County: FAQ
- How often does Hidalgo County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Hidalgo County, TX logged 414 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Hidalgo County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 200,550 customers without power, beginning April 27, 2023 and lasting about 18d 20h.
- Is there a power outage in Hidalgo County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Hidalgo County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, Weslaco. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Hidalgo County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Hidalgo County.
78501, 78503, 78504, 78516, 78537, 78538, 78539, 78540, 78541, 78542, 78543, 78549, 78557, 78558, 78560, 78562, 78563, 78565, 78570, 78572, 78573, 78574, 78576, 78577, 78579, 78589, 78595, 78596, 78599
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48215 and /api/v1/counties/48215/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).