SAN ANTONIO – Two weeks after two homes were destroyed in an explosion on the Northeast Side that sent multiple people to the hospital, new data is raising questions about how often gas leaks are being reported across the region.<\/p>\n
The explosions happened in the Preston Hollow area, where neighbors say the blast came without warning.<\/p>\n
Now, state records show gas leaks are being reported at a significant rate across South Texas.<\/p>\n
From July through December 2025, 1,043 gas leaks were reported in Bexar County alone, according to the Texas Railroad Commission. <\/p>\n
And it is not just Bexar County.<\/p>\n
Nearby counties also saw reports, including 162 in Comal County, 90 in Guadalupe County, and 67 in Kerr County. Across Maverick, Val Verde, Uvalde, Zavala, Medina, and Kendall counties, another 71 leaks were reported during the same six-month period.<\/p>\n
Altogether, that is more than 1,500 reported gas leaks across the broader San Antonio region in just half a year.<\/p>\n
In Bexar County, CPS Energy is the primary natural gas provider responsible for maintaining the system. Records show 532 of the 1,043 local leaks were classified as Grade 1, the most serious category requiring immediate repair.<\/p>\n
Attorney Michael Lyons, who has handled gas explosion cases for decades, says leaks become dangerous when they find an ignition source.<\/p>\n
All you need is a competent ignition source to meet that fuel load, and it can cause a very intense explosion,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Lyons recently won a $110 million verdict in Bexar County in a similar case and is now representing two families affected by the Preston Hollow explosion, though he has not commented further since taking the case.<\/p>\n
He says aging infrastructure is a major concern.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we see throughout Texas is that a lot of these gas systems are old. They are deteriorating, and they are leaking,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n
For comparison, Harris County reported more than 9,000 gas leaks in the same period, while Dallas County reported more than 5,600.<\/p>\n
Back in Preston Hollow, investigators are still working to determine what caused the explosion. A key part of that process is the PS-95 leak report, which documents the location, severity, and cause of a leak, as well as how it was repaired.<\/p>\n
Those are the answers investigators are still working to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Two weeks after two homes were destroyed in an explosion on the Northeast Side that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-777495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116528245308344231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}