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Who serves Washington County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative ↗, Fayette Electric Cooperative and Entergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Brenham 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 — Washington County, TX
⚡ Power here was restored about 44 hours ago — the outage peaked at 1,797 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,797 customers, restored in ~1.7 hr (weather alert).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Washington County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
362 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 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: ~14,504 customers out in July 2017, restored after about 2.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
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 Washington County
Communities in Washington County include Brenham, Burton, Gay Hill-Independence and Washington-Chappell Hill. 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 Washington County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Washington include Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Fayette Electric Cooperative, Entergy 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.
