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Who serves Wharton County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Wharton County Electric Cooperative, AEP Texas, CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric and Jackson Electric Cooperative, 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 — Wharton County, TX
Last significant outage: Sep 10, 2026 — peaked at 410 customers, restored in ~9.7 hr (heat event).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 9.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 12, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Wharton County, TX
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
937 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
8 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
9.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the Texas norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: an outage in February 2021, restored after about 4.1 days. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source. 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.
Cities we track in Wharton County
Communities in Wharton County include El Campo, East Bernard, Boling, Boling-Newgulf, Hungerford, Iago and Louise. 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 Wharton County, TX?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Wharton include Wharton County Electric Cooperative, AEP Texas, CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric 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.
