{"id":419843,"date":"2026-08-29T03:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419843\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:26:22","slug":"map-texas-power-outage-updates-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419843\/","title":{"rendered":"Map: Texas power outage updates, tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">When severe weather or other problems affect the Texas power grid, you want to know how extensive power outages are in your area. The Dallas Morning News&#8217; power outage tracker brings you up-to-date information on outages on the county level to help you assess whether your situation is localized or part of a larger grid issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Click on a county to see the number of current outages, outages in the past 24 hours and which utilities are responsible for the most lost power. The data is updated every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Texans, like people across the U.S., are experiencing more power outages due to major disruptions, according to federal data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">Outages experienced during non-major disruptions have remained roughly constant between 2021 and 2024, Energy Information Administration data shows. But factoring in \u201cmajor event days\u201d (when outage durations exceed a statistical threshold), Texans on average are undergoing more outages than before. There was a spike in outages including major disruptions in 2021, when a deadly winter storm battered the state\u2019s energy grid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">The News\u2019 revamped outage tracker leverages data from <a href=\"https:\/\/findenergy.com\/use-our-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FindEnergy<\/a>, a website that aggregates energy data nationwide. FindEnergy pulls county-level data directly from utilities like Oncor Electric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">FindEnergy also provides data on the number of customers served by each utility. Many utilities make customer counts public, but for those that don\u2019t, FindEnergy has estimated customer counts using utility coverage area maps, population density data and information about proximity to other utilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"serif-copy text-width mb-md\">The News&#8217; mission is to provide readers with the most timely, detailed information on power outages in the region. Check back as we continue to improve this tracker with more information on local outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When severe weather or other problems affect the Texas power grid, you want to know how extensive power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,102139,8239,14428],"class_list":["post-419843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-electrical-grid","tag-electricity","tag-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}