Houston tracker · Counting since October 2, 2026
Houston Tracker
Every road closure, water issue, outage, construction notice and transit alert the city's agencies, utilities and newsrooms reported across Houston and the close-in metro, counted week by week. No login, no feed. Just the numbers, and where they landed.
What the numbers say
A heavier week on the roads, with I-10 Katy coming up most. Power and transit were busier than the week before.
Half of Houston's road incidents clear within 79 minutes. The longest ran 6.5 hours.
Measured from 339 with a start and end time, the last 7 days.
Half of Houston's outages clear within 2.3 hours. The longest ran 12 hours.
Measured from 506 with a start and end time, the last 7 days.
Half of Houston's transit alerts clear within 88 minutes. The longest ran 2 days.
Measured from 88 with a start and end time, the last 7 days.
Week by week
Weeks start on Sunday. One thing is counted once per place per day, and something that runs for days counts on the day it started. Brief lane blocks that cleared inside an hour are left out, closures scheduled to run longer than a week are roadworks rather than incidents, an outage counts when it left 10 or more customers without power, and stories about policy or funding are not incidents.
Where Houston was hit this week
The places that came up most in the last 7 days.
Areas, most affected first
849 placedWhat the map says
Tap a row to see it on the map.Areas are measured from City Hall in downtown Houston: within 2 miles is Downtown and Midtown, within 6 miles (about where the 610 Loop runs) is that quadrant of Houston, and beyond that is the metro. An item with no coordinates is counted in the totals but not placed on the map. Corridors come from the road a source named, with the freeway names folded onto their numbers (the Katy Freeway and the East Freeway are I-10; the Gulf Freeway and the North Freeway are I-45; the Southwest and Eastex Freeways are I-69). Interstates are split into the stretch north, south, east or west of downtown, since one number for a whole freeway hides where the trouble is. Council districts are the City of Houston's own boundaries, from its GIS: the eleven district seats, A to K. Pasadena, Pearland, Sugar Land, Katy, The Woodlands and the rest of the metro have no district drawn and are shown on the metro map.
Sources are read every ten minutes, and the counts are rebuilt whenever one of them publishes something new. Last counted Oct 9, 8:08 PM CT.
Only what these sources published. Nothing inferred. Counted once when an agency and a newsroom report the same thing.