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2016 Kings County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kings County, CA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 118K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 20 California counties and 1387th 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 Kings 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 | April 25, 2016 07:15 | April 26, 2016 04:45 | 21h 30m | 19,643 | 60K |
| 2 | July 16, 2016 05:00 | July 16, 2016 12:45 | 7h 45m | 3,849 | 5,891 |
| 3 | July 17, 2016 14:15 | July 17, 2016 15:15 | 1h | 2,218 | 2,218 |
| 4 | June 13, 2016 23:30 | June 14, 2016 00:15 | 45m | 1,796 | 1,347 |
| 5 | June 5, 2016 04:00 | June 5, 2016 21:45 | 17h 45m | 1,794 | 4,226 |
| 6 | January 31, 2016 17:00 | February 1, 2016 02:45 | 9h 45m | 1,452 | 3,497 |
| 7 | January 18, 2016 15:45 | January 19, 2016 12:30 | 20h 45m | 1,139 | 4,452 |
| 8 | October 28, 2016 12:15 | October 29, 2016 04:00 | 15h 45m | 946 | 1,979 |
| 9 | June 24, 2016 18:45 | June 24, 2016 21:15 | 2h 30m | 528 | 1,320 |
| 10 | October 5, 2016 21:45 | October 6, 2016 00:15 | 2h 30m | 503 | 881 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 44 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Kings 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 ÷ 62,998 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. Kings County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kings 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/kings-county