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2016 Riverside County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Riverside County, CA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 3.0M customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 20 California counties and 891st 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 Riverside 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 27, 2016 04:45 | April 30, 2016 02:00 | 2d 21h | 20,239 | 101K |
| 2 | December 2, 2016 14:15 | December 4, 2016 13:45 | 1d 23h | 15,519 | 72K |
| 3 | July 19, 2016 04:15 | July 23, 2016 05:00 | 4d | 14,036 | 32K |
| 4 | March 31, 2016 16:45 | April 3, 2016 07:30 | 2d 14h | 9,418 | 106K |
| 5 | November 10, 2016 05:00 | November 13, 2016 07:45 | 3d 2h | 9,406 | 218K |
| 6 | August 6, 2016 05:15 | August 6, 2016 12:45 | 7h 30m | 8,671 | 4,579 |
| 7 | April 9, 2016 00:45 | April 9, 2016 02:30 | 1h 45m | 7,635 | 9,542 |
| 8 | January 10, 2016 23:30 | January 12, 2016 04:45 | 1d 5h | 7,053 | 12K |
| 9 | November 27, 2016 14:15 | November 27, 2016 17:00 | 2h 45m | 6,236 | 7,244 |
| 10 | September 28, 2016 14:45 | September 29, 2016 03:45 | 13h | 6,122 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 303 reached 100+ customers, 170 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Riverside 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 |
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.91 | 87 min | 0.82 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2016 | 78 min | 0.79 | 56 min | 0.60 |
| Anza Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 16.5 hrs | 12.04 | 15.7 hrs | 11.93 |
| City of Riverside - (CA) | 2016 | 51 min | 0.81 | 51 min | 0.81 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Banning - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Corona - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Moreno Valley - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 853,923 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. Riverside County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riverside 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/riverside-county