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2016 Tulare County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Tulare County, CA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 514K customer-hours (California average 2.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 20 California counties and 1072nd 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 Tulare 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 12, 2016 16:15 | December 12, 2016 23:15 | 7h | 16,902 | 9,242 |
| 2 | July 28, 2016 16:45 | July 29, 2016 12:30 | 19h 45m | 12,851 | 7,755 |
| 3 | March 29, 2016 14:45 | March 30, 2016 01:00 | 10h 15m | 3,490 | 4,677 |
| 4 | April 11, 2016 15:30 | April 12, 2016 08:15 | 16h 45m | 3,238 | 4,397 |
| 5 | November 16, 2016 16:15 | November 17, 2016 10:30 | 18h 15m | 2,668 | 7,863 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 15:30 | July 9, 2016 03:00 | 11h 30m | 2,222 | 1,816 |
| 7 | December 20, 2016 16:15 | December 21, 2016 04:00 | 11h 45m | 2,062 | 1,795 |
| 8 | November 21, 2016 16:30 | November 23, 2016 09:30 | 1d 17h | 2,015 | 7,706 |
| 9 | March 18, 2016 01:15 | March 18, 2016 05:00 | 3h 45m | 2,011 | 1,535 |
| 10 | January 21, 2016 16:15 | January 22, 2016 05:00 | 12h 45m | 1,864 | 1,314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 262 reached 100+ customers, 51 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Tulare 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 ÷ 186,939 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. Tulare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tulare 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/tulare-county