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Who serves Sterling County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, AEP Texas and Oncor, 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 — Sterling County, TX
Last significant outage: Sep 20, 2026 — peaked at 216 customers, restored in ~2.8 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 20, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Sterling County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
70 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~1,607 customers out in April 2022, restored after about 1.3 hr. 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
How do I report a power outage in Sterling County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Sterling include Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, AEP Texas and Oncor — 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.