When will the power be back in Hale County, TX?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Hale County, TX right now.

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Elsewhere in Texas: 3,194 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 10:31 PM CDT.

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Who serves Hale County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Xcel Energy — Southwestern Public Service and South Plains Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Lamb County Electric Cooperative, Lighthouse Electric Cooperative and Swisher 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 — Hale County, TX

Last significant outage: Sep 19, 2026 — peaked at 434 customers, restored in ~1.7 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.5 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 13, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Hale County, TX

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 186 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.

That is shorter than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.

Largest on record: ~10,794 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 38 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2017.

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.

Cities we track in Hale County

Plainview

Communities in Hale County include Plainview, Abernathy, Hale Center, Petersburg, Edmonson and Seth Ward. 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 Hale County, TX?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hale include Xcel Energy — Southwestern Public Service, South Plains Electric Cooperative, Lamb County 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.

Nearby counties & areas

Floyd County · Lamb County · Lubbock County · Swisher County · Castro County · Hockley County · Crosby County · Briscoe County

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