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When will the power be back in Kilgore, TX?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Gregg County, Texas
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customers reported out in Kilgore · live from SWEPCO (AEP) · updated 9:14 PM CDT
Across the whole county (Gregg, Texas, all utilities): 4 reported out — a broader count from a different source; don't add it to the Kilgore figure above.
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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 Kilgore, Texas — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Kilgore is a city in Gregg County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Kilgore directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Kilgore

Kilgore is a city of about 13,583 residents in Gregg County.

Rusk County Electric Coop, SWEPCO, and Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative have reported outages for Kilgore by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-17) — so when Kilgore 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 Kilgore: 75662 · 75663 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Kilgore: the closest other places we track are Longview, about 10 miles to the northeast; Henderson, about 17 miles to the south; Tyler, about 27 miles to the west; Marshall, about 31 miles to the east. Also nearby: Mount Pleasant (53 mi N), Nacogdoches (56 mi S), Athens (58 mi W), Sulphur Springs (66 mi NW), Bossier City, LA (70 mi E), Lufkin (75 mi S), Texarkana (85 mi NE), Terrell (86 mi W). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: northeast toward Texarkana, AR (87 mi); east toward Minden, LA (94 mi); southeast toward Natchitoches, LA (113 mi); south toward Huntsville (124 mi); west toward Forney (96 mi); northwest toward Greenville (88 mi).

Who serves Kilgore?

We track live outage data from Rusk County Electric Coop, SWEPCO, Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative in Gregg 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 — Gregg County, TX (covers Kilgore)
Power here was restored about 19 hours ago — the outage peaked at 254 customers.
Last significant outage: Aug 18, 2026 — peaked at 254 customers, restored in ~8.5 hr (heat event).
Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Gregg County, TX (covers Kilgore)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,227 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 17 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~4.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~48,369 customers out in August 2019, restored after about 12.5 hr.
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 Kilgore, 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 Kilgore 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 Kilgore, TX?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Kilgore 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 Kilgore ZIP code — 75662, 75663 — 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 Kilgore, TX?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Gregg County include Rusk County Electric Coop, SWEPCO, Upshur Rural Electric Cooperative; 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 Kilgore specifically, or the whole county?

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

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.

Kilgore, TX — live power outage tracker