When will the power be back in El Campo, TX?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
El Campo is a city of about 12,176 residents in Wharton County.
AEP Texas has reported outages for El Campo by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when El Campo is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in El Campo:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around El Campo: the closest other places we track are Bay City, about 24 miles to the southeast; Rosenberg, about 36 miles to the northeast; Richmond, about 41 miles to the northeast; and Fulshear, about 41 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: Port Lavaca (46 mi SW), Sugar Land (47 mi NE), Katy (48 mi NE), Victoria (50 mi SW), Lake Jackson (51 mi E), Missouri City (51 mi NE), Angleton (51 mi E) and Stafford (52 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Brenham (67 mi); northeast toward Bellaire (60 mi); east toward Iowa Colony (54 mi); southwest toward Rockport (94 mi); west toward Seguin (106 mi); and northwest toward Bastrop (89 mi).
Who serves El Campo?
We track live outage data from Wharton County Electric Cooperative, AEP Texas, CenterPoint Energy — Houston Electric and Jackson Electric Cooperative in Wharton County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
El Campo's last tracked outage began Sep 10, peaked at 36 customers out, and was restored in 30 minutes. Across the 4 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 55 minutes.
- Sep 10 — 36 customers out, restored in 30 minutes
- Aug 29 — 121 customers out, restored in 6 hours
- Aug 27 — 49 customers out, restored in an hour
- Aug 21 — 25 customers out, restored in 55 minutes
County context: across all of Wharton County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 9.3 hr. The full record for Wharton County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in El Campo, TX?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from El Campo's own record: across the 4 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 55 minutes — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in El Campo, TX?
To check your own street, search an El Campo ZIP code — 77437 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show El Campo specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for El Campo we have the city-level view: AEP Texas has published outages for El Campo under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When El Campo is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Wharton County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes El Campo.
