Power Outages in Howard County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Howard County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.3 hours.
Howard County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Howard 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 Howard County right now.
Howard County has been under 4 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Watch on July 17, 2026.
- Flood Watch ×4
Hardest-hit cities in Howard County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Howard County went about 3.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 8,061 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 8,061 customers out) · decade average 2.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 341 | 1,928 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 60 | 208 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 718 | 5,866 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 753 | 4,895 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 699 | 2,242 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 707 | 8,061 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 759 | 2,300 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 699 | 1,594 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 702 | 649 | 0.7 |
| 2025 | 647 | 6,823 | 3.3 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 2.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Howard County: FAQ
- How often does Howard County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Howard County, TX logged 647 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Howard County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 8,061 customers without power, beginning February 12, 2021 and lasting about 7d 3h.
- Is there a power outage in Howard County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Howard County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Howard County.
79511, 79720, 79721, 79733, 79748
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48227 and /api/v1/counties/48227/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).