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SafeX Pro Exchange|Texas power outage map: Over 500,000 outages reported after series of severe storms
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Date:2025-04-09 02:59:57
Over half a million power outages have SafeX Pro Exchangebeen reported in Texas Wednesday as a series of severe storms swept through the state over Memorial Day weekend and continued into this week.
More storms hit Texas and the Southern Plains Tuesday, the latest outbreak of severe weather in the central U.S. that killed at least 22 people over the weekend.
At least one storm-related death was reported in Texas on Tuesday, after two homes under construction collapsed under the force of hazardous winds and rain.
Dallas County officials issued a disaster declaration Tuesday. Judge Clay Jenkins posted on X that the storms will likely result in "a multi day power outage for a significant number" of utility customers in the region.
Here's where power outages have been reported in Texas.
See photos:Severe storms over holiday weekend leave trail of disaster
Texas power outages continue Wednesday: See counties with large outages
There are a number of outages reported over the last 72 hours around the state, including Dallas and East Texas, around Houston, Lubbock, Corpus Christi and along the Texas-Mexico border, according to a power outage tracker from USA TODAY.
- Dallas County: Over 200,000 outages
- Harris County: Over 128,000 outages
- Collin County: Over 24,000 outages
- Kaufman County: Over 14,000 outages
- Denton County: Over 10,000 outages
- Hockley County: Over 7,000 outages
- Polk County: Over 5,000 outages
- Aransas County: Over 3,000 outages
Dallas area still experiencing power outages days after first storms
Dallas County has over 200,000 outages reported as of Wednesday morning, the highest in the state. At over 2.6 million residents, Dallas County is the second most populated county in Texas, just after Harris County, which has over 4.8 million residents.
Besides Harris County, where Houston is located, some of the counties with the highest outages surrounded Dallas, including Collin, Denton and Kaufman counties.
Texas power outages: See map
Contributing: Christopher Cann and Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY.
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