SEV2 — MajorCLOSEDInfrastructureUnverified52d ago

Texas Power Outage - 77K Customers Affected

A significant power outage is impacting 77,086 customers across Texas, representing a 2.6x increase above normal levels. This outage threatens site operations for contact centers and back-office facilities in affected areas, potentially forcing evacuations or service disruptions. WFM leaders should assess staff safety, activate backup power protocols, and prepare contingency staffing plans.

Impact Summary

A significant power outage is impacting 77,086 customers across Texas, representing a 2.6x increase above normal levels. This outage threatens site operations for contact centers and back-office facilities in affected areas, potentially forcing evacuations or service disruptions. WFM leaders should assess staff safety, activate backup power protocols, and prepare contingency staffing plans.

Domain
Infrastructure
Region
Texas, US, South Africa
Opened By
watchkeeper
May 20, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC
Event Cluster
2 events
OVIX Score
8.5
Closed
watchkeeper-auto(merged)
May 20, 2026, 10:38 AM UTC

Timeline3

Incident openedby watchkeeperMay 20, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC
Auto-declared from 2 infrastructure signals via tier=cluster_llm. OVIX score 8.5.
Note addedby watchkeeperMay 20, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC
Flagged for human validation: SEV2 incidents require manual review per policy.
Incident closedby watchkeeperMay 20, 2026, 10:38 AM UTC
Bulk closed: duplicate/noise from v2 calibration. Replaced by v3-calibrated engine.

Evidence / Why this?

Traced to source — read-only
Evidence is not yet available for this incident. Older incidents predate the traceability layer; newly declared incidents will show why they were declared, why their severity was set, geo provenance, and their sources here.

Related Signals2

[US] infrastructure 8.5 — Power outage: Texas — 77,086 customers affected (2.6x above 24h avg of 29,373)sentinel52d ago[US] infrastructure 8.5 — Power outage: Texas — 77,086 customers affected (2.6x above 24h avg of 29,373)sentinel52d ago

Affected Regions

South Africa