Power Outages in Kern County, CA
As of July 18, 2026 18:54 UTC, about 140 customers are without power in Kern County, CA across 5 reported incidents. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.6 hours.
Kern County, CA is served by 2 tracked utilities.
- SCE
- PGE
No active NWS alerts for Kern County right now.
Kern County has been under 7 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 17, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×7
Latest Kern County, CA outage updates
A running log of how this outage has changed — updated automatically as utilities report in.
- RESOLVED
Power restored after 32m
- OUTAGE BEGAN
Outage began — 998 customers out (0.3% of the county)
- RESOLVED
Power restored after 43m
- OUTAGE BEGAN
Outage began — 690 customers out
- RESOLVED
Power restored after 54m
- OUTAGE BEGAN
Outage began — 506 customers out
- RESOLVED
Power restored after 1h 51m
- OUTAGE BEGAN
Outage began — 538 customers out
Hardest-hit cities in Kern County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Live outage counts are tracked at the county level; a city-by-city split within Kern Countyisn't available yet.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Kern County went about 5.6 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 79,327 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 50,079 customers out) · decade average 3.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 431 | 5,447 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 411 | 8,927 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 421 | 9,857 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 411 | 14,286 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 313 | 17,294 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 416 | 16,233 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 354 | 10,006 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 305 | 50,079 | 6.1 |
| 2023 | 169 | 41,280 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 219 | 19,305 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 329 | 79,327 | 5.6 |
What causes outages here
Share of outage-time by reported cause, from live ODIN utility reports. Why does my power keep going out? →
A reported cause is available for 0.1% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.
Relatively High wildfire exposure · 3.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Kern County: FAQ
- How often does Kern County, CA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Kern County, CA logged 329 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.6 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Kern County, CA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 79,327 customers without power, beginning January 8, 2025 and lasting about 1d 11h.
- Is there a power outage in Kern County, CA right now?
- Yes — about 140 customers are currently without power across 5 reported incident(s).
- Which utilities serve Kern County, CA?
- Tracked electric providers include PGE, SCE.
Bakersfield, Delano. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Kern County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Kern County (showing 40 of 47).
93203, 93205, 93206, 93215, 93220, 93222, 93224, 93226, 93240, 93241, 93243, 93249, 93250, 93251, 93255, 93263, 93268, 93276, 93280, 93283, 93285, 93287, 93301, 93304, 93305, 93306, 93307, 93308, 93309, 93311, 93312, 93313, 93314, 93501, 93505, 93516, 93518, 93519, 93523, 93524
Electric providers serving this county
From EIA-861 service territory, with official reliability where reported.
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/06029 and /api/v1/counties/06029/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of California customers). Live data as of .