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Who serves Gaines 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 and Lea County Electric Cooperative also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Gaines County, TX
⚡ Power here was restored about 43 hours ago — the outage peaked at 300 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 300 customers, restored in ~1.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 31, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Gaines County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
243 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~6,237 customers out in April 2023, restored after about 2.3 hr. 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.
Communities covered
Communities in Gaines County include Seminole, Seagraves and Loop. 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 Gaines County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Gaines include Oncor, Xcel Energy — Southwestern Public Service, Lyntegar Electric Cooperative and others — 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.
