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Who serves Cherokee County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Oncor and Houston County EC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Cherokee County Electric Cooperative Association 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 — Cherokee County, TX
⚡ Power here was restored about 30 hours ago — the outage peaked at 420 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 420 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 9 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 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cherokee County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
628 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~12,169 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 3.1 days. 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.
Cities we track in Cherokee County
Communities in Cherokee County include Jacksonville, Rusk, Alto, New Summerfield, Wells, Gallatin, Cuney and Mount Selman. 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 Cherokee County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Cherokee include Oncor, Houston County EC and Cherokee County Electric Cooperative Association — 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.
