Power outages in Texas, by utility
Across 51 Texas utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 3.4 hours in 2025 — that is 1.1× the national median. Texas ranks #15 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 3.4 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 22.2 hrs
- Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp
- Best utility
- 0.4 hrs
- City of College Station - (TX)
- Utilities reporting
- 51
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Texas utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upshur Rural Elec Coop CorpCooperative | 22.2 hrs1332 min | 5.6 | 7.5× worse |
| 2 | Jasper-Newton Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 19.1 hrs1145 min | 7.2 | 6.4× worse |
| 3 | Deep East Texas Elec Coop IncCooperative | 18.7 hrs1119 min | — | 6.3× worse |
| 4 | Wood County Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 15.6 hrs934 min | 4.3 | 5.2× worse |
| 5 | Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn - (TX)Cooperative | 14 hrs841 min | 5.4 | 4.7× worse |
| 6 | Rusk County Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 9.8 hrs587 min | — | 3.3× worse |
| 7 | Navasota Valley Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 9.5 hrs569 min | 4.4 | 3.2× worse |
| 8 | Deaf Smith Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 8.6 hrs514 min | 2.4 | 2.9× worse |
| 9 | Southwestern Electric Power CoInvestor Owned | 7.8 hrs467 min | 3.0 | 2.6× worse |
| 10 | Sam Houston Electric Coop IncCooperative | 7.8 hrs466 min | — | 2.6× worse |
| 11 | Southwestern Public Service CoInvestor Owned | 7.4 hrs441 min | 1.7 | 2.5× worse |
| 12 | Nueces Electric CooperativeCooperative | 6.8 hrs411 min | 1.9 | 2.3× worse |
| 13 | Entergy Texas Inc.Investor Owned | 6.7 hrs403 min | 2.6 | 2.3× worse |
| 14 | Concho Valley Elec Coop IncCooperative | 6.1 hrs364 min | 3.7 | 2.0× worse |
| 15 | Taylor Electric Coop Inc - (TX)Cooperative | 6.1 hrs364 min | 3.5 | 2.0× worse |
| 16 | Cooke County Elec Coop AssnCooperative | 5.8 hrs349 min | 2.3 | 2.0× worse |
| 17 | Medina Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 5 hrs300 min | 2.7 | 1.7× worse |
| 18 | Magic Valley Electric Coop IncCooperative | 4.8 hrs288 min | — | 1.6× worse |
| 19 | Lyntegar Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 4.4 hrs267 min | — | 1.5× worse |
| 20 | Victoria Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 4.2 hrs253 min | 2.2 | 1.4× worse |
| 21 | San Patricio Electric Coop IncCooperative | 4 hrs240 min | 2.2 | 1.3× worse |
| 22 | Central Texas Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 3.7 hrs220 min | 2.0 | 1.2× worse |
| 23 | Bartlett Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.6 hrs213 min | 1.5 | 1.2× worse |
| 24 | HILCO Electric Cooperative, Inc.Cooperative | 3.5 hrs212 min | 1.8 | 1.2× worse |
| 25 | AEP Texas Central CompanyInvestor Owned | 3.4 hrs205 min | 1.8 | 1.1× worse |
| 26 | Heart of Texas Electric CoopCooperative | 3.4 hrs204 min | 1.8 | 1.1× worse |
| 27 | Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (TX)Cooperative | 3.4 hrs203 min | 1.7 | 1.1× worse |
| 28 | Rio Grande Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.2 hrs195 min | — | 1.1× worse |
| 29 | CenterPoint EnergyInvestor Owned | 3.2 hrs193 min | 2.0 | 1.1× worse |
| 30 | San Bernard Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.1 hrs184 min | 1.4 | 1.0× worse |
| 31 | Austin EnergyMunicipal | 3 hrs182 min | 1.3 | 1.0× worse |
| 32 | Trinity Valley Elec Coop IncCooperative | 3 hrs179 min | 2.4 | 1.0× worse |
| 33 | Bandera Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 2.6 hrs154 min | 0.9 | 1.2× better |
| 34 | Brownsville Public Utilities BoardMunicipal | 2.5 hrs152 min | 3.0 | 1.2× better |
| 35 | Guadalupe Valley Elec Coop IncCooperative | 2.3 hrs139 min | 1.8 | 1.3× better |
| 36 | City of San Marcos - (TX)Municipal | 2.3 hrs136 min | 1.8 | 1.3× better |
| 37 | AEP Texas North CompanyInvestor Owned | 2.2 hrs133 min | 1.4 | 1.3× better |
| 38 | United Electric Coop Service Inc - (TX)Cooperative | 2 hrs122 min | 1.2 | 1.5× better |
| 39 | Bluebonnet Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 1.9 hrs114 min | 1.3 | 1.6× better |
| 40 | City of Lubbock - (TX)Municipal | 1.8 hrs111 min | 1.7 | 1.6× better |
| 41 | City of San Antonio - (TX)Municipal | 1.8 hrs111 min | 1.5 | 1.6× better |
| 42 | City of FloresvilleMunicipal | 1.7 hrs100 min | 1.2 | 1.8× better |
| 43 | Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (TX)Cooperative | 1.5 hrs91 min | 1.3 | 2.0× better |
| 44 | Pedernales Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 1.5 hrs90 min | 1.2 | 2.0× better |
| 45 | Kerrville Public Utility BoardMunicipal | 1.4 hrs85 min | 0.5 | 2.1× better |
| 46 | City of New Braunfels - (TX)Municipal | 1 hrs58 min | 0.8 | 3.1× better |
| 47 | El Paso Electric CoInvestor Owned | 0.9 hrs55 min | 0.9 | 3.2× better |
| 48 | City of Greenville - (TX)Municipal | 0.9 hrs55 min | 0.6 | 3.2× better |
| 49 | Denton County Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 0.8 hrs49 min | 0.4 | 3.6× better |
| 50 | City of Denton - (TX)Municipal | 0.8 hrs48 min | 0.2 | 3.7× better |
| 51 | City of College Station - (TX)Municipal | 0.4 hrs23 min | 0.6 | 7.8× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.