Power Outages in Rusk County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Rusk County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 9.8 hours.
Rusk County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Rusk 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 Rusk County right now.
Rusk County has been under 6 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on July 16, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×5
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Rusk County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Rusk County went about 9.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 13,290 customers.
Worst year here was 2024 (peak 12,840 customers out) · decade average 17.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 533 | 8,777 | 19.9 |
| 2016 | 457 | 3,259 | 3.8 |
| 2017 | 552 | 3,132 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 686 | 4,148 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 788 | 13,290 | 13.3 |
| 2020 | 933 | 10,685 | 11.9 |
| 2021 | 847 | 12,312 | 27.2 |
| 2022 | 786 | 5,083 | 18.8 |
| 2023 | 686 | 12,571 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 701 | 12,840 | 47.3 |
| 2025 | 674 | 4,885 | 9.8 |
Relatively High high winds exposure · 17.9 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 Rusk County: FAQ
- How often does Rusk County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Rusk County, TX logged 674 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 9.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Rusk County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 13,290 customers without power, beginning August 18, 2019 and lasting about 1d 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Rusk County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Rusk County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Rusk County.
75641, 75652, 75654, 75658, 75667, 75680, 75681, 75682, 75684, 75687, 75689, 75691, 75784
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48401 and /api/v1/counties/48401/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).