Houston Area Timeline

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March 25

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Keeping you updated on the latest confirmed active cases in the Houston Metro area, this post will be edited to reflect new data collected across the region, so check back often.

This Google Sheet has raw data compiled from various county public health sites across the metro area if you would like to dig into the reported numbers

*Note: Harris County confirmed case reports exclude the city of Houston, in order to get an accurate count of active cases in all of Harris County, you must combine City of Houston and Harris County confirmed cases.

**Note: The chart above excludes confirmed "recovered" cases, only displaying active confirmed cases and the number of associated deaths.

March 25 – began the first full day of expanded stay-at-home orders across the metro area with Harris, Fort Benda and Brazoria counties issuing order that went into effect today. Other hard-hit counties including Montgomery and Galveston have yet to issues such sweeping orders. Harris County saw he biggest single day jump ever with 40 additional positive cases identified. The City of Houston saw an increase of 11 new cases. Both Houston and Harris Counties have 169 active cases identified and a current testing capacity of ~250 patients per day. Montgomery and Fort Bend Counties each had 8 new cases while Galveston and Brazoria saw 6.

CORRECTION: There is a correction to yesterday's count. I erroneously reported an active case in Waller County. This report is not confirmed at this time and has been removed from the list.

March 24 – started off with a stay at home order issued by Harris County which later in the day saw a spike in positive cases from a large batch of test results. Harris County, including the City of Houston, saw an additional 56 positive cases today. Fort Bend County followed suit in the afternoon issuing their own stay home order after having cases rise by 4. Montgomery County increased their positive cases by 4 and currently is showing 9% of their tests return positive with another 128 tests pending. Brazoria County had 9 positive cases, Galveston 3, Chambers 2 and Liberty holding at one. At this point, every county in the Houston Metro area has at least 1 confirmed positive case identified in Waller and Austin counties.

March 23 – saw a jump in confirmed positive cases, adding 29 cases across the Metro area with 2 confirmed recoveries. Of the 7 counties reporting cases, Fort Bend has the largest increase with 13 new cases, however, Fort Bend did not report new cases on Sunday so we can likely attribute the rise to both increased testing and a reporting lag. The city of Houston reported 1 new case and their first 2 recoveries. Harris county (excluding Houston) reported 3 new cases, Montgomery reported 4 new cases, Brazoria reported 2 new cases, Galveston reported 6 new cases and Liberty and Chambers Counties did not report any additional cases. Montgomery is one of the few counties reporting the number of positive (19), negative (117) and pending (147) tests.