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California Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 125,952 customers are currently without power across 39 counties in California.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

Not mapped to a county8

MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Mono County107.1h/cust
  2. 2Alpine County73.7h/cust
  3. 3Sierra County62.0h/cust
  4. 4Plumas County38.0h/cust
  5. 5Inyo County33.2h/cust
  6. 6Mariposa County32.7h/cust
  7. 7Ventura County28.4h/cust
  8. 8Mendocino County19.1h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
California
125,952
AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 125,952
Updated July 18, 2026
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Cost of power in California

▲ 124% since 2010

What Californiapays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
35.3¢
per kWh
Commercial
25.8¢
per kWh
Industrial
19.9¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
14.7¢201014.7¢201115.3¢201216.2¢201316.1¢201416.9¢201517.2¢201618.2¢201718.7¢201819.1¢201920.5¢202022.8¢202125.8¢202229.6¢202332.1¢202432.6¢202533.0¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO COUNTY121,781San RafaelMARIN COUNTY904NovatoMARIN COUNTY904Los AngelesLOS ANGELES COUNTY796Long BeachLOS ANGELES COUNTY796Santa ClaritaLOS ANGELES COUNTY796GlendaleLOS ANGELES COUNTY796LancasterLOS ANGELES COUNTY796

A decade of outages in California

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

3.1h20152.5h20162.2h20173.7h20189.6h20196.3h20206.6h20214.9h20227.9h20236.1h20247.6h2025

California's worst year on record was 2019 (peak 135,474 customers out) · decade average 5.5 hrs per customer/yr.

See how California ranks against every state →

What causes outages in California

Share of outage-time by reported cause, aggregated across all counties.

Equipment failure
65%
Vehicle / accident
20.7%
Planned / maintenance
14.3%

A reported cause is available for 0.2% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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Electric providers in California

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