When will the power be back in Friendswood, TX?
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Friendswood is a city of about 41,291 residents in Galveston County.
CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power have reported outages for Friendswood by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Friendswood 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 Friendswood:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Friendswood: the closest other places we track are Webster, about 5 miles to the east; League City, about 6 miles to the east; Pearland, about 8 miles to the northwest; and Dickinson, about 9 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Manvel (10 mi W), Alvin (10 mi SW), Santa Fe (10 mi SE), Pasadena (11 mi N), South Houston (11 mi N), Deer Park (13 mi N), Seabrook (14 mi E) and La Porte (14 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Galena Park (16 mi); northeast toward Baytown (22 mi); east toward Texas City (19 mi); southeast toward La Marque (16 mi); south toward Clute (36 mi); southwest toward Angleton (27 mi); west toward Iowa Colony (14 mi); and northwest toward West University Place (20 mi).
Who serves Friendswood?
We track live outage data from Texas-New Mexico Power ↗, CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric and Entergy in Galveston County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map.
Friendswood's last tracked outage began Sep 29, peaked at 56 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 4 hours.
- Sep 29 — 56 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 22 — 94 customers out, restored in 8 hours
- Sep 20 — 515 customers out, restored in 5 hours
- Sep 19 — 35 customers out, restored in 40 minutes
County context: across all of Galveston County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 7.3 hr. The full record for Galveston County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Friendswood, TX?
To check your own street, search a Friendswood ZIP code — 77546 or 77549 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Friendswood specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Friendswood we have the city-level view: CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power have published outages for Friendswood under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Friendswood is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Galveston County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Friendswood.
