When will the power be back in The Colony, TX?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
The Colony is a city of about 45,897 residents in Denton County.
Oncor and Texas-New Mexico Power have reported outages for The Colony by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when The Colony 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 The Colony:
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Around The Colony: the closest other places we track are Lewisville, about 6 miles to the southwest; Frisco, about 6 miles to the northeast; Little Elm, about 7 miles to the north; and Carrollton, about 7 miles to the south. Also nearby: Plano (9 mi E), Highland Village (9 mi W), Addison (10 mi S), Coppell (10 mi SW), Corinth (10 mi W), Providence Village (11 mi N), Prosper (11 mi NE) and Farmers Branch (11 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Celina (17 mi); northeast toward McKinney (15 mi); east toward Allen (13 mi); southeast toward Richardson (14 mi); south toward Irving (17 mi); southwest toward Grapevine (15 mi); west toward Flower Mound (13 mi); and northwest toward Denton (17 mi).
Who serves The Colony?
We track live outage data from Oncor, Texas-New Mexico Power ↗, CoServ / Denton County EC, Denton Municipal Electric ↗ and 1 more in Denton County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Cooke County Electric Cooperative Association and City of Sanger also serve parts of Denton County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps.
The Colony's last tracked outage began Oct 1, peaked at 665 customers out, and was restored in 30 minutes. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Oct 1 — 665 customers out, restored in 30 minutes
- Sep 30 — 3,226 customers out, restored in 35 minutes
- Sep 30 — 58 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 27 — 66 customers out, restored in 8 hours
County context: across all of Denton County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 3.3 hr. The full record for Denton County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in The Colony, TX?
To check your own street, search a The Colony ZIP code — 75056 — and the map opens on that area.
