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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include AEP Texas, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Magic Valley Electric Cooperative 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Cameron County, TX
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 376 customers, restored in ~5.2 hr (weather alert).
Across the 21 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cameron County, TX
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,362 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 17 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~4.4 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in winter.
That is longer than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~43,776 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 5.1 days. 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.
Communities in Cameron County include Brownsville, Harlingen, San Benito, Los Fresnos, La Feria, Primera, Port Isabel and Laguna Vista. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
