When will the power be back in Melissa, TX?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Melissa is a city of about 26,194 residents in Collin County.
Grayson-Collin EC, Lamar County Electric Cooperative Association and Oncor have reported outages for Melissa by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Melissa is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in Melissa:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Melissa: the closest other places we track are Anna, about 4 miles to the north; Princeton, about 8 miles to the south; McKinney, about 9 miles to the southwest; and Fairview, about 11 miles to the south. Also nearby: Celina (14 mi W), Allen (14 mi SW), Prosper (15 mi W), Frisco (18 mi SW), Wylie (18 mi S), Murphy (19 mi S), Plano (20 mi SW) and Sachse (22 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Sherman (24 mi); northeast toward Bonham (30 mi); southeast toward Fate (26 mi); south toward Richardson (24 mi); southwest toward The Colony (24 mi); west toward Little Elm (23 mi); and northwest toward Gainesville (42 mi).
Who serves Melissa?
We track live outage data from Oncor, CoServ / Denton County EC, Farmers EC ↗, Texas-New Mexico Power ↗ and 1 more in Collin County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Fannin County Electric Cooperative and City of Farmersville also serve parts of Collin County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
Melissa's last tracked outage began Sep 19, peaked at 82 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 4 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour.
- Sep 19 — 82 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 10 — 40 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
- Sep 8 — 57 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Aug 20 — 1,059 customers out, restored in an hour
County context: across all of Collin County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 5.8 hr. The full record for Collin County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Melissa, TX?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Melissa's own record: across the 4 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Melissa, TX?
To check your own street, search a Melissa ZIP code — 75454 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Melissa specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Melissa we have the city-level view: Grayson-Collin EC, Lamar County Electric Cooperative Association and Oncor have published outages for Melissa under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Melissa is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Collin County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Melissa.
