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Who serves Taylor County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include AEP Texas, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Taylor Electric Cooperative and Coleman County 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Taylor County, TX
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 664 customers, restored in ~3.7 hr (weather alert).
Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Taylor County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
641 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
6 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 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: ~25,935 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 3.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Taylor County
Communities in Taylor County include Abilene, Merkel, Tye, Tuscola, Buffalo Gap, Lawn, Trent and Impact. 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 Taylor County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Taylor include AEP Texas, Taylor Electric Cooperative and Coleman County Electric Cooperative — 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.
