Power Outages in Imperial County, CA
No live outage feed is available for Imperial County, CA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.7 hours.
Imperial County, CA is served by local tracked utilities.
Imperial County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Imperial County right now.
Imperial County has been under 3 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Extreme Heat Warning on July 16, 2026.
- Extreme Heat Warning ×3
Hardest-hit cities in Imperial County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- El Centrono active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Imperial County went about 2.7 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,696 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 2,513 customers out) · decade average 2.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | 401 | 0.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | 383 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | 308 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | 373 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 48 | 986 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 84 | 2,513 | 12.4 |
| 2021 | 63 | 2,956 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 75 | 4,696 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 79 | 2,834 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 30 | 2,052 | 0.4 |
| 2025 | 38 | 4,555 | 2.7 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 2.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Imperial County: FAQ
- How often does Imperial County, CA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Imperial County, CA logged 38 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.7 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Imperial County, CA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,696 customers without power, beginning October 15, 2022 and lasting about 19h 45m.
- Is there a power outage in Imperial County, CA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Imperial County, CA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
El Centro. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Imperial County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Imperial County.
92222, 92227, 92231, 92233, 92243, 92249, 92250, 92251, 92257, 92259, 92266, 92273, 92275, 92281, 92283
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/06025 and /api/v1/counties/06025/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of California customers).