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Who serves Rains County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Farmers EC ↗, Texas-New Mexico Power ↗, SWEPCO, Oncor and 1 more, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Rains County, TX
Last significant outage: Aug 8, 2026 — peaked at 905 customers, restored in ~4.5 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Rains County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
81 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is shorter than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~5,723 customers out in September 2023, restored after about 16.5 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.
Communities covered
Communities in Rains County include Emory, East Tawakoni and Point. 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 Rains County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rains include Farmers EC, Texas-New Mexico Power, SWEPCO 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.
