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Who serves Austin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative ↗ and Fayette Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. San Bernard Electric Cooperative and City of Bellville also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Austin County, TX
Last significant outage: Sep 9, 2026 — peaked at 200 customers, restored in ~7.3 hr (heat event).
Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Austin County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
903 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
8 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
8.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: an outage in May 2024, restored after about 6 days. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Austin County include Sealy, Bellville, Wallis, San Felipe, Brazos Country, Industry, South Frydek and New Ulm. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Austin County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Austin include CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Fayette Electric Cooperative and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
