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2016 Fresno County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fresno County, CA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 20 California counties and 2225th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fresno County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 7, 2016 17:00 | November 7, 2016 19:15 | 2h 15m | 1,129 | 2,540 |
| 2 | January 8, 2016 00:45 | January 8, 2016 19:45 | 19h | 1,075 | 344 |
| 3 | July 28, 2016 15:00 | July 28, 2016 16:15 | 1h 15m | 955 | 1,194 |
| 4 | April 11, 2016 16:30 | April 11, 2016 23:00 | 6h 30m | 789 | 704 |
| 5 | October 18, 2016 16:15 | October 18, 2016 23:15 | 7h | 714 | 720 |
| 6 | November 27, 2016 20:30 | November 27, 2016 23:30 | 3h | 708 | 2,124 |
| 7 | December 22, 2016 16:15 | December 22, 2016 22:45 | 6h 30m | 706 | 1,080 |
| 8 | May 29, 2016 00:45 | May 29, 2016 10:30 | 9h 45m | 705 | 2,309 |
| 9 | January 22, 2016 19:45 | January 22, 2016 20:15 | 30m | 698 | 349 |
| 10 | January 31, 2016 17:45 | February 1, 2016 02:30 | 8h 45m | 692 | 3,073 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Fresno County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.10 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 1.8 hrs | 0.99 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kings River Conservation Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of California's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 458,084 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Fresno County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fresno County, CA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/california/fresno-county