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Who serves Bell County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Oncor, Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative, Bartlett Electric Cooperative and Pedernales Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Bartlett also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Bell County, TX
⚡ Power here was restored about 7 hours ago — the outage peaked at 217 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 217 customers, restored in ~17.5 hr (weather alert).
Across the 23 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.7 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 — Bell County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
789 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
10 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
5.5 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: ~62,146 customers out in May 2024, restored after about 26 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
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.
Cities we track in Bell County
Communities in Bell County include Killeen, Temple, Harker Heights, Belton, Nolanville, Morgan's Point Resort, Troy and Salado. 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 Bell County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Bell include Oncor, Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative, Bartlett 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.
