Power Outages in Willacy County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Willacy County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.9 hours.
Willacy County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Willacy 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
Willacy 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 Willacy County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Willacy County went about 5.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 7,991 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 7,991 customers out) · decade average 11.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | 1,147 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 126 | 338 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 485 | 1,998 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 474 | 3,469 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 499 | 7,991 | 57.7 |
| 2021 | 492 | 4,934 | 22.0 |
| 2022 | 529 | 2,141 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 504 | 2,015 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 553 | 2,000 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 556 | 1,189 | 5.9 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 11.5 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 Willacy County: FAQ
- How often does Willacy County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Willacy County, TX logged 556 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Willacy County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 7,991 customers without power, beginning July 25, 2020 and lasting about 10d 8h.
- Is there a power outage in Willacy County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Willacy County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Willacy County.
78561, 78569, 78580, 78590, 78594, 78598
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48489 and /api/v1/counties/48489/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).