Fort Worth, Texas Power Outage Today

How reliable is Oncor service in Fort Worth?

Oncor is an investor-owned utility with 4,013,062 customers. In 2024 its customers averaged 1.71 interruptions and 532 minutes (about 8.9 hours) without power, so the average outage lasted about 5.2 hours.

About 87% of that time came on major event days, the severe-weather days that utilities report separately. On ordinary days the average falls to 67 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 Oncor customers, they stayed out for about 5.2 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 Oncor below the state average, which is better.

Among the 70 utilities in Texas with at least 5,000 customers that report to the federal government, Oncor ranks 52nd for the fewest outage minutes (1 is best). Nationally, 20% of the 926 utilities of that size reported more outage minutes in 2024.

This utility reports with its own method rather than the IEEE standard, so compare its numbers with other utilities loosely.

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 Fort Worth

NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 978 storm reports for Tarrant County from 2015 through 2026, most often hail (528), thunderstorm wind (285), flash flood (107), and tornado (22). The busiest full year was 2024 with 133 reports and the quietest was 2018 with 45, so the risk changes a lot from one year to the next.

Reports peak in April (237 since 2015), followed by May and March. 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 Tarrant 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 Fort Worth do to the grid:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Fort Worth

Within Tarrant County, 191 NOAA storm reports since 2015 name Fort Worth as their location or in their description: thunderstorm wind (83), flash flood (53), hail (39), and tornado (6). That is about 20% of the county’s reports. Reports naming Fort Worth are most common in April. The busiest full year was 2019 with 35. These reports record 2 injuries in total.

Who a power outage hits hardest in Fort Worth

67.8% of occupied homes in Fort Worth 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 10.6% of the population in Fort Worth, below the US share of 17.2% and 10.5% 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 Oncor whether it keeps a priority or medical-needs list, and register before the next storm rather than during it.

About the housing: 25.3% of the housing in Fort Worth was built before 1970 (US 35.5%).

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

If the power is out in Fort Worth

About 918,915 people live in Fort Worth, the 5th largest of the 20 Texas cities on this site. Report the outage to the utility so a ticket exists for your address, then check Oncor’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.

Fort Worth power outage map

Oncor’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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