Emergency Electrician in Memorial, TX

When something electrical goes wrong at night, you need a person on the phone, not a web form. Wired is a licensed, insured, family-owned electrician, and our line at (713) 467-1125 is open 24/7. We work as an emergency electrician and 24 hour electrician for Memorial homeowners, from the six Memorial Villages to the older streets along Memorial Drive and Buffalo Bayou.

Start with safety, then call. The sections below cover what to do in the first few minutes, what we ask when you phone and how long the drive takes from our shop in Tomball.

First minutes: burning smell, sparks and a dead panel

If you see flames or heavy smoke, get everyone outside and call 911 before anything else. For a burning smell, sparks at an outlet or a panel that is hot or buzzing, turn off the breaker for that circuit only if the panel is dry and you can reach it without standing in water. Leave the panel cover shut. Keep away from anything wet or scorched, and leave that circuit off until an electrician has looked at it. If the whole panel is dead, ask a neighbor whether the street lost power before assuming the fault is inside your house.

Storm damage after Uri and Beryl

Big trees are part of what makes Memorial what it is, and part of the risk. A falling limb can tear a service mast off a roofline, crack a meter base or pull wires loose, and flooding can reach outlets and equipment low to the ground. Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Hurricane Beryl in July 2024 showed many homeowners how quickly small damage becomes a long outage. If a line is down, stay well back and call 911 and CenterPoint Energy. The wires on the utility side are theirs. The equipment on your house is our job, and the utility generally needs it repaired and approved before it restores service.

What to expect when you call

You reach a person who asks what you see, hear and smell, whether a breaker will reset, whether anything is wet and where your panel is. Those answers tell us whether tonight is a make-safe visit or the problem can wait for morning. We give you an arrival window and tell you what is safe to do while you wait. When we arrive, we explain what we found and what the repair involves before we begin.

A straight answer on drive time

Our shop is at 13910 Alice Road in Tomball, and Memorial is about 45 minutes away by our estimate. Late at night with clear roads it may be less. In rush hour, during a storm or with water on the roads, it can be a good deal more. We would rather give you a realistic arrival time than an optimistic one, and if the situation is dangerous we will tell you how to make it safe and stay away from it until we arrive.