When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Dripping Springs, TX?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Hays County, Texas
No significant county-wide outage reported · updated 9:15 PM CDT.
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Elsewhere in Texas: 3,023 customers reported out — statewide status.
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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 Dripping Springs, Texas — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Dripping Springs is a city in Hays County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Dripping Springs directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Dripping Springs

Dripping Springs is a city of about 10,165 residents in Hays County.

Pedernales Electric Coop has reported outages for Dripping Springs by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-27) — so when Dripping Springs 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 Dripping Springs: 78620 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Dripping Springs: the closest other places we track are Lakeway, about 13 miles to the northeast; Buda, about 17 miles to the southeast; Lago Vista, about 19 miles to the north; Kyle, about 19 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Austin (21 mi E), San Marcos (24 mi SE), Cedar Park (27 mi NE), Leander (30 mi NE), Lockhart (33 mi SE), Liberty Hill (34 mi N), Pflugerville (34 mi NE), New Braunfels (34 mi S). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Killeen (64 mi); northeast toward Round Rock (34 mi); east toward Manor (36 mi); southeast toward Victoria (116 mi); south toward Seguin (43 mi); southwest toward Fair Oaks Ranch (45 mi); west toward Fredericksburg (47 mi); northwest toward Brownwood (117 mi).

Who serves Dripping Springs?

We track live outage data from Austin Energy ↗, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative ↗, Pedernales Electric Coop ↗ in Hays 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 — Hays County, TX (covers Dripping Springs)
Power here was restored about 23 hours ago — the outage peaked at 363 customers.
Last significant outage: Aug 18, 2026 — peaked at 363 customers, restored in ~1.3 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 18, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hays County, TX (covers Dripping Springs)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 565 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 7 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~1.5 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: ~53,598 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 2.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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 Dripping Springs, 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 Dripping Springs 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 Dripping Springs, TX?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Dripping Springs 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 Dripping Springs ZIP code — 78620 — 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 Dripping Springs, TX?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Hays County include Austin Energy, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Pedernales Electric Coop; 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 Dripping Springs specifically, or the whole county?

Both, and for Dripping Springs we have the city-level view: Pedernales Electric Coop has published outages for Dripping Springs under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-07-27. When Dripping Springs is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Hays County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Dripping Springs.

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.

Dripping Springs, TX — live power outage tracker