Power Outages in Zapata County, TX
No live outage feed is available for Zapata County, TX yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.1 hours.
Zapata County, TX is served by local tracked utilities.
Zapata 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 Zapata County right now.
Zapata 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 Zapata County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Zapata County went about 5.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 6,300 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 6,300 customers out) · decade average 10.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 187 | 1,736 | 5.1 |
| 2017 | 44 | 257 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 381 | 1,501 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 350 | 2,837 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 407 | 5,796 | 12.1 |
| 2021 | 407 | 6,300 | 61.3 |
| 2022 | 426 | 2,291 | 6.7 |
| 2023 | 455 | 1,342 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 477 | 2,934 | 4.5 |
| 2025 | 454 | 1,715 | 5.1 |
Relatively Low hurricanes exposure · 10.8 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 Zapata County: FAQ
- How often does Zapata County, TX lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Zapata County, TX logged 454 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Zapata County, TX?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 6,300 customers without power, beginning February 15, 2021 and lasting about 5d 21h.
- Is there a power outage in Zapata County, TX right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Zapata County, TX. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Zapata County.
78067, 78076, 78564
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/48505 and /api/v1/counties/48505/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Texas customers).