Power Outages in Wheeler County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Wheeler County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 23.3 hours.
Wheeler County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Wheeler 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 Wheeler County right now.
Hardest-hit cities in Wheeler County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Wheeler County went about 23.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,046 customers.
Worst year here was 2015 (peak 4,046 customers out) · decade average 14.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 161 | 4,046 | 59.3 |
| 2016 | 133 | 331 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 183 | 638 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 212 | 886 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 255 | 604 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 218 | 2,638 | 38.2 |
| 2021 | 234 | 855 | 7.1 |
| 2022 | 216 | 732 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 221 | 444 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 217 | 1,581 | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 296 | 1,927 | 23.3 |
Relatively Moderate ice storms exposure · 14.2 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 Wheeler County: FAQ
- How often does Wheeler County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Wheeler County, TX logged 296 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 23.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Wheeler County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,046 customers without power, beginning December 27, 2015 and lasting about 3d 19h.
- Is there a power outage in Wheeler County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Wheeler County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Wheeler County.
79011, 79061, 79079, 79096
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48483 and /api/v1/counties/48483/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).