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California Power Outages

As of October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC, about 6,315 customers are currently without power across 37 counties in California.

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https://massoutage.com/california
As of
October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
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MassOutage

MassOutage, "California Power Outages", live data as of October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. https://massoutage.com/california

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Outage trend · California
6,315customers out · peak 20,438
Data as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
California: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 20,438 customers out; latest 6,315 as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.010k20k30kOct 146 AM12 PM6 PM
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Cost of power in California

▲ 122% 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
33.6¢
per kWh
Commercial
30.6¢
per kWh
Industrial
25.1¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
California residential electricity price by year2010–2025: 2010 14.7¢, 2011 14.7¢, 2012 15.3¢, 2013 16.2¢, 2014 16.1¢, 2015 16.9¢, 2016 17.2¢, 2017 18.2¢, 2018 18.7¢, 2019 19.1¢, 2020 20.5¢, 2021 22.8¢, 2022 25.8¢, 2023 29.6¢, 2024 32.1¢, 2025 32.6¢.0204014.7¢201014.7¢15.3¢201216.2¢16.1¢201416.9¢17.2¢201618.2¢18.7¢201819.1¢20.5¢202022.8¢25.8¢202229.6¢32.1¢202432.6¢
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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.

A decade of outages in California

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

California outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 3.1h, 2016 2.5h, 2017 2.2h, 2018 3.7h, 2019 9.3h, 2020 6.2h, 2021 6.6h, 2022 4.9h, 2023 7.9h, 2024 6.1h, 2025 7.5h. Highlighted: 2019 (highest).02.557.5103.1h20152.5h20162.2h20173.7h20189.3h20196.2h20206.6h20214.9h20227.9h20236.1h20247.5h2025
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California's worst year on record was 2019 (peak 1,025,762 customers out at once) · decade average 5.5 hrs per customer/yr.

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Official reliability (EIA 2025)

Source: US EIA
6.0 hrs
SAIDI, avg outage/customer/yr
1.3
SAIFI, outages/customer/yr

Major disturbances (DOE)

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Electric providers in California

0% of California customers are served by utilities with a live county-level feed; 2% have no live feed. Our coverage →

All California counties

Data from DOE/ORNL ODIN and DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read. Machine-readable data: /api/v1/live/map. Live data as of .