Beaumont, Texas Power Outage Today

How reliable is Entergy Texas service in Beaumont?

Entergy Texas is an investor-owned utility with 526,491 customers. In 2024 its customers averaged 3.46 interruptions and 1,728 minutes (about 29 hours) without power, so the average outage lasted about 8.3 hours.

About 82% of that time came on major event days, the severe-weather days that utilities report separately. On ordinary days the average falls to 305 minutes. A handful of severe-weather days, not everyday faults, set this utility’s year.

The long average outage is the notable figure: when the lights went out for Entergy Texas customers, they stayed out for about 8.3 hours on average, which is long enough to spoil refrigerated food and strain medical needs.

For comparison, Texas as a whole averaged 1,271 minutes and the United States 614 minutes. That puts Entergy Texas above the state average.

Among the 70 utilities in Texas with at least 5,000 customers that report to the federal government, Entergy Texas ranks 61st for the fewest outage minutes (1 is best). Nationally, 6% of the 926 utilities of that size reported more outage minutes in 2024.

These are the figures the utility itself reported to the US Energy Information Administration (Form EIA-861, 2024) and describe the whole service territory, not one street. Your own address can be better or worse.

Storm season and outages in Beaumont

NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 167 storm reports for Jefferson County from 2015 through 2026, most often flash flood (62), thunderstorm wind (55), hail (32), and tornado (9). The busiest full year was 2024 with 32 reports and the quietest was 2021 with 6, so the risk changes a lot from one year to the next.

Reports peak in May (42 since 2015), followed by April and June. October is outside those three months, so an outage now is less likely to be weather-related.

NOAA’s own narratives name power outages in 2 storm episodes in Jefferson County since 2015. That count is a floor, since the database records outages only when a spotter or agency mentions them.

What the most common storm types in Beaumont do to the grid:

• Flash flood. Floodwater reaches ground-level transformers, meters and low-lying substations. Utilities may shut power off ahead of the water on purpose, and wading near flooded equipment can electrocute.
• Thunderstorm wind. Straight-line wind pushes trees and limbs into distribution lines. These outages are usually local, a street or a neighborhood at a time, and crews clear them circuit by circuit.
• Hail. Hail rarely cuts power by itself, but it often arrives with the wind and lightning that do, and it breaks solar panels, windshields and exposed utility equipment.

Storm reports that name Beaumont

Within Jefferson County, 56 NOAA storm reports since 2015 name Beaumont as their location or in their description: flash flood (34), thunderstorm wind (13), hail (7), and tornado (1). That is about 34% of the county’s reports. Reports naming Beaumont are most common in May. The busiest full year was 2024 with 12. These reports record 8 deaths and 2 injuries in total.

Who a power outage hits hardest in Beaumont

65.5% of occupied homes in Beaumont are heated with electricity (US 41.3%). In a winter outage those homes lose heat the moment the power fails, and electric furnaces and heat pumps are too large to run from a portable generator. Warm layers, blankets and a plan for where to stay matter more here than in a gas-heated city.

Residents aged 65 or older are 16.3% of the population in Beaumont, close to the US share of 17.2% and 15.8% report a disability (US 13.3%). These are the households most likely to depend on powered medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines and refrigerated medicine. If someone in your home does, ask Entergy Texas whether it keeps a priority or medical-needs list, and register before the next storm rather than during it.

About the housing: 34.2% of the housing in Beaumont was built before 1970 (US 35.5%).

Median household income in Beaumont is $56,997, below the Texas figure of $78,476. For many households, replacing a freezer of spoiled food or paying for a hotel during a long outage is a real hardship; dialing 211 connects to local shelters, warming or cooling centers and utility assistance programs.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 (housing, heating fuel, age and disability tables).

Backup power and electricity use in Beaumont

The average Entergy Texas home used about 1,210 kWh a month in 2024 (US average 892 kWh), an average draw of 1.7 kW around the clock, and paid about 13.7 cents per kWh (14.9 in the state, 15.8 nationally), roughly $165 a month.

Keeping only the essentials on (a refrigerator, router, a few lights and phone chargers, about 400 watts) through an outage that lasts the average about 8.3 hours takes about 3.3 kWh. A portable power station in the 1 to 3 kWh range covers part of that, and a small inverter generator covers all of it.

A generator must never run indoors, in a garage or near a window; generator and food-safety rules are in the power outage guide linked below.

If the power is out in Beaumont

About 115,282 people live in Beaumont, the 20th largest of the 20 Texas cities on this site. Report the outage to the utility so a ticket exists for your address, then check Entergy Texas’s outage map for an estimate. If neighbors have power and you do not, report it again: the fault may be on the line to your house alone, which is a separate repair.

Beaumont power outage map

Entergy Texas’s outage map has the official restoration estimate for your address; the count above comes from residents. Food and generator safety: power outage guide.

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