Power Outages in Orange County, CA
As of July 18, 2026 18:54 UTC, about 55 customers are without power in Orange County, CA across 6 reported incidents. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.5 hours.
Orange County, CA is served by 2 tracked utilities.
- High Surf AdvisoryMINOR
Orange County has been under 28 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a High Surf Advisory on July 20, 2026.
- Beach Hazards Statement ×8
- Extreme Heat Warning ×7
- Heat Advisory ×7
- Extreme Heat Watch ×3
- High Surf Advisory ×2
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Latest Orange County, CA outage updates
A running log of how this outage has changed — updated automatically as utilities report in.
- RESOLVED
Power restored after 5h 40m
- IMPROVING
Improving — down to 547 customers out
- GREW
Outage grew to 3,089 customers out (0.3% of the county)
- GREW
Outage grew to 3,089 customers out (0.3% of the county)
- GREW
Outage grew to 3,089 customers out (0.3% of the county)
- OUTAGE BEGAN
Outage began — 562 customers out (0.0% of the county)
- RESOLVED
Power restored after 2h 12m
- GREW
Outage grew to 3,029 customers out (0.2% of the county)
Hardest-hit cities in Orange 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 Orange Countyisn't available yet.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Orange County went about 3.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 253,449 customers.
Worst year here was 2015 (peak 124,111 customers out) · decade average 2.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 286 | 124,111 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 326 | 72,744 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 355 | 23,377 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 347 | 12,097 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 331 | 83,382 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | 386 | 23,812 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 386 | 106,672 | 3.2 |
| 2022 | 320 | 21,978 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 381 | 78,247 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 328 | 21,187 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 325 | 253,449 | 3.5 |
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 0.2% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.
Relatively High wildfire exposure · 2.7 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Orange County: FAQ
- How often does Orange County, CA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Orange County, CA logged 325 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Orange County, CA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 253,449 customers without power, beginning January 8, 2025 and lasting about 9d 20h.
- Is there a power outage in Orange County, CA right now?
- Yes — about 55 customers are currently without power across 6 reported incident(s).
- Which utilities serve Orange County, CA?
- Tracked electric providers include SCE, SDGE.
Anaheim, Irvine, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Fullerton, Orange, Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Westminster, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, Buena Park, Tustin, Yorba Linda, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente, La Habra, Fountain Valley, Placentia, Aliso Viejo, Cypress, Brea, Rancho Santa Margarita. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Orange County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Orange County (showing 40 of 88).
90620, 90621, 90623, 90630, 90631, 90680, 90720, 90740, 90742, 90743, 92602, 92603, 92604, 92606, 92610, 92612, 92614, 92617, 92618, 92620, 92624, 92625, 92626, 92627, 92629, 92630, 92637, 92646, 92647, 92648, 92649, 92651, 92653, 92655, 92656, 92657, 92660, 92661, 92662, 92663
Electric providers serving this county
From EIA-861 service territory, with official reliability where reported.
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/06059 and /api/v1/counties/06059/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of California customers). Live data as of .