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2016 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 471K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 20 California counties and 1675th 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 Kern 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 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 25, 2016 06:45 | 1d 20h | 8,927 | 95K |
| 2 | June 17, 2016 15:15 | June 17, 2016 23:30 | 8h 15m | 4,701 | 1,258 |
| 3 | October 5, 2016 04:00 | October 5, 2016 12:15 | 8h 15m | 3,951 | 32K |
| 4 | March 31, 2016 16:45 | April 1, 2016 03:00 | 10h 15m | 3,481 | 24K |
| 5 | May 26, 2016 00:00 | May 26, 2016 20:00 | 20h | 3,395 | 14K |
| 6 | March 17, 2016 15:30 | March 18, 2016 05:00 | 13h 30m | 3,004 | 3,187 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 01:00 | June 18, 2016 05:00 | 4h | 2,932 | 771 |
| 8 | May 5, 2016 15:15 | May 5, 2016 23:15 | 8h | 2,290 | 1,215 |
| 9 | September 19, 2016 08:45 | September 19, 2016 10:00 | 1h 15m | 2,213 | 2,706 |
| 10 | October 1, 2016 13:45 | October 2, 2016 11:45 | 22h | 2,205 | 9,082 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 161 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 Kern 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 |
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 ÷ 395,015 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. Kern County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kern 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/kern-county