When's the Power Back?

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

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Howard 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 Howard County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Oncor, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Lyntegar Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Howard County, TX
Last significant outage: Sep 20, 2026 — peaked at 205 customers, restored in ~9.3 hr (heat event).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Howard County, TX
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 238 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~8,061 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 5.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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 Howard County

Communities in Howard County include Big Spring, Coahoma, Forsan, Big Spring North and Sand Springs. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Howard County, TX — live power outage tracker