County annual report · FIPS 06027
2016 Inyo County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Inyo County, CA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 20 California counties and 859th 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 Inyo 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 | December 8, 2016 06:30 | December 8, 2016 14:00 | 7h 30m | 451 | 141 |
| 2 | December 9, 2016 14:00 | December 9, 2016 14:15 | 15m | 450 | 113 |
| 3 | July 9, 2016 13:30 | July 10, 2016 07:15 | 17h 45m | 346 | 2,956 |
| 4 | May 26, 2016 01:00 | May 26, 2016 03:15 | 2h 15m | 284 | 300 |
| 5 | October 1, 2016 21:00 | October 1, 2016 23:15 | 2h 15m | 274 | 617 |
| 6 | January 21, 2016 18:15 | January 21, 2016 18:30 | 15m | 271 | 68 |
| 7 | July 2, 2016 04:45 | July 3, 2016 09:15 | 1d 4h | 239 | 4,093 |
| 8 | November 17, 2016 00:15 | November 17, 2016 11:15 | 11h | 186 | 241 |
| 9 | November 28, 2016 19:45 | November 28, 2016 20:00 | 15m | 186 | 47 |
| 10 | October 27, 2016 17:00 | October 27, 2016 22:15 | 5h 15m | 144 | 756 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 15 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Inyo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern California Edison Co | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 1.8 hrs | 0.99 |
| Valley Electric Assn, Inc | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.31 | 66 min | 1.00 |
| Los Angeles Department of Water & Power | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 | 83 min | 0.68 |
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 ÷ 7,201 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. Inyo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Inyo 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/inyo-county