When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Red Oak, TX?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Ellis County, Texas
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customers reported out in Red Oak · live from Oncor (TX) · updated 9:08 PM CDT
Across the whole county (Ellis, Texas, all utilities): 2 reported out — a broader count from a different source; don't add it to the Red Oak figure above.
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Official ETA, when the utility posts oneIndependent estimated return window when trend data allows — often available first
Utility-reported status & customer countsConfidence range + whether the outage is growing, stable, or restoring

How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 19, 7,878 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 2 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 1.9 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Red Oak, Texas — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Red Oak is a city in Ellis County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Red Oak directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Red Oak

Red Oak is a city of about 19,365 residents in Ellis County.

Hilco Electric Coop and Oncor have reported outages for Red Oak by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-17) — so when Red Oak 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 Red Oak: 75154 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Red Oak: the closest other places we track are Glenn Heights, about 5 miles to the northwest; Lancaster, about 5 miles to the north; DeSoto, about 7 miles to the northwest; Waxahachie, about 9 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Cedar Hill (11 mi NW), Duncanville (12 mi NW), Midlothian (12 mi W), Ennis (16 mi SE), Seagoville (17 mi NE), Balch Springs (17 mi NE), Grand Prairie (18 mi NW), Dallas (19 mi N). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward University Park (23 mi); northeast toward Mesquite (20 mi); west toward Mansfield (20 mi); northwest toward Arlington (23 mi).

Who serves Red Oak?

We track live outage data from Hilco Electric Coop, Oncor, United Cooperative Services in Ellis County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Outage history — Ellis County, TX (covers Red Oak)
Power here was restored about 24 hours ago — the outage peaked at 255 customers.
Last significant outage: Aug 18, 2026 — peaked at 255 customers, restored in ~3 hr (heat event).
Across the 8 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 25, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Ellis County, TX (covers Red Oak)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 863 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 7 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~4.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~25,236 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 5.4 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.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Red Oak, TX?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Red Oak area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

How do I check the power outage status in Red Oak, TX?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Red Oak area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. To narrow it to your own street, search a Red Oak ZIP code — 75154 — and the map opens on that area. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Red Oak, TX?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Ellis County include Hilco Electric Coop, Oncor, United Cooperative Services; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Red Oak specifically, or the whole county?

Both, and for Red Oak we have the city-level view: Hilco Electric Coop and Oncor have published outages for Red Oak under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-17. When Red Oak is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Ellis County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Red Oak.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

Red Oak, TX — live power outage tracker