When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Iowa Colony, TX?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Brazoria County, Texas
No significant county-wide outage reported · updated 10:00 PM CDT.
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How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 19, 7,878 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 2 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 1.9 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Iowa Colony, Texas — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Iowa Colony is a village in Brazoria County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Iowa Colony directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Iowa Colony

Iowa Colony is a village of about 17,240 residents in Brazoria County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Iowa Colony by name, so this page reports the Brazoria County county-wide view, which covers Iowa Colony. If a serving utility does name Iowa Colony during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

Around Iowa Colony: the closest other places we track are Manvel, about 5 miles to the northeast; Alvin, about 9 miles to the southeast; Pearland, about 10 miles to the northeast; Missouri City, about 11 miles to the northwest. Also nearby: Friendswood (14 mi E), Stafford (15 mi NW), Sugar Land (17 mi NW), Bellaire (18 mi N), Angleton (19 mi S), West University Place (19 mi N), South Houston (19 mi NE), League City (19 mi E). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Houston (24 mi); northeast toward Pasadena (22 mi); east toward Webster (19 mi); southeast toward Galveston (35 mi); south toward Lake Jackson (27 mi); southwest toward Bay City (45 mi); west toward Rosenberg (25 mi); northwest toward Richmond (22 mi).

Who serves Iowa Colony?

We track live outage data from CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric, Jackson Electric Cooperative, Texas-New Mexico Power ↗ in Brazoria County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Outage history — Brazoria County, TX (covers Iowa Colony)
Power here was restored about 27 hours ago — the outage peaked at 1,892 customers.
Last significant outage: Aug 18, 2026 — peaked at 1,892 customers, restored in ~8 hr (heat event).
Across the 27 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Brazoria County, TX (covers Iowa Colony)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,582 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 22 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~10 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~318,242 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 3.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Iowa Colony, TX?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Iowa Colony area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

How do I check the power outage status in Iowa Colony, TX?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Iowa Colony area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Iowa Colony, TX?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Brazoria County include CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric, Jackson Electric Cooperative, Texas-New Mexico Power; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Iowa Colony specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Brazoria County county-wide view, which covers Iowa Colony. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Iowa Colony by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Iowa Colony. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. Manvel (5 mi NE) is the closest place we track separately.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

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