When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Dawson County, TX?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Dawson County, TX right now.
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Elsewhere in Texas: 3,194 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:31 PM CDT.
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Who serves Dawson County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Oncor and Xcel Energy — Southwestern Public Service, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Lyntegar 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.

Outage history — Dawson County, TX
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 1,769 customers, restored in ~1 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Dawson County, TX
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 144 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~5,739 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 4.8 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 covered

Communities in Dawson County include Lamesa, Los Ybanez, Lamesa Northeast, Lamesa Northwest, Lamesa Southeast, Lamesa Southwest and Welch. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Dawson County, TX — live power outage tracker