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2016 Orange County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orange County, CA went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 4.1M customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 20 California counties and 921st 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 Orange 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 | March 15, 2016 15:00 | March 16, 2016 13:45 | 22h 45m | 72,744 | 141K |
| 2 | January 30, 2016 16:30 | February 4, 2016 03:30 | 4d 11h | 14,403 | 143K |
| 3 | June 18, 2016 14:30 | June 19, 2016 16:45 | 1d 2h | 10,746 | 18K |
| 4 | February 21, 2016 16:15 | February 23, 2016 04:45 | 1d 12h | 10,373 | 24K |
| 5 | July 26, 2016 02:45 | July 27, 2016 08:15 | 1d 5h | 9,972 | 17K |
| 6 | June 10, 2016 03:15 | June 11, 2016 10:00 | 1d 6h | 9,167 | 20K |
| 7 | June 22, 2016 03:00 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 1d 7h | 7,882 | 19K |
| 8 | August 27, 2016 05:30 | August 27, 2016 14:15 | 8h 45m | 7,384 | 20K |
| 9 | March 3, 2016 16:30 | March 7, 2016 14:45 | 3d 22h | 6,960 | 89K |
| 10 | July 15, 2016 15:15 | July 24, 2016 00:00 | 8d 8h | 6,843 | 108K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 280 reached 100+ customers, 185 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Orange 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 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2016 | 86 min | 0.67 | 72 min | 0.61 |
| City of Anaheim - (CA) | 2016 | 27 min | 0.69 | 27 min | 0.69 |
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 ÷ 1,255,530 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county