When's the Power Back?

Harris County, TX power outage: 19,162 customers without electricity

About 19,162 customers are without power in Harris County, Texas; outage conditions are changing quickly, so a reliable restoration estimate is not available yet.

When's the Power Back? editorial · published Aug 28, 4:50 PM CDT · updated Aug 28, 6:20 PM CDT · published automatically from live outage data, not individually reviewed · corrections: contact us
19,162
customers without power as of Aug 28, 6:20 PM CDT · county has roughly 2,003,721 households
No official restoration time posted yet.
Our independent estimate: day 2 of this outage (started Aug 27) — grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend — computed from this outage's own recovery trend and graded publicly.
How it developed39,965 peakAug 28, 4:35 PM CDTAug 28, 6:20 PM CDT
Aug 28, 4:35 PM CDT — 10,351 out · Aug 28, 4:50 PM CDT — 25,950 out · Aug 28, 5:05 PM CDT — 35,068 out · Aug 28, 5:20 PM CDT — 39,965 out · Aug 28, 5:35 PM CDT — 28,625 out · Aug 28, 5:50 PM CDT — 26,268 out · Aug 28, 6:05 PM CDT — 22,607 out · Aug 28, 6:20 PM CDT — 19,162 out
Track it live: the numbers above were frozen when this article was published — the live page for Harris County updates about every 15 minutes with current counts, the utility's latest restoration time, and our estimate.