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2017 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 465K customer-hours (California average 2.2 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 47 California counties and 1968th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kern County, 2017
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 4, 2017 01:30 | June 4, 2017 15:00 | 13h 30m | 9,857 | 18K |
| 2 | January 5, 2017 17:30 | January 7, 2017 07:00 | 1d 13h | 9,426 | 37K |
| 3 | January 1, 2017 15:00 | January 2, 2017 03:15 | 12h 15m | 5,660 | 26K |
| 4 | July 30, 2017 22:45 | July 31, 2017 00:15 | 1h 30m | 5,113 | 5,113 |
| 5 | May 2, 2017 15:45 | May 3, 2017 03:30 | 11h 45m | 4,737 | 6,102 |
| 6 | July 17, 2017 12:15 | July 18, 2017 00:45 | 12h 30m | 3,810 | 7,578 |
| 7 | June 9, 2017 14:00 | June 10, 2017 01:15 | 11h 15m | 3,451 | 39K |
| 8 | January 18, 2017 16:15 | January 19, 2017 00:45 | 8h 30m | 2,972 | 1,504 |
| 9 | May 8, 2017 15:15 | May 9, 2017 12:00 | 20h 45m | 2,791 | 5,015 |
| 10 | September 11, 2017 05:00 | September 12, 2017 15:00 | 1d 10h | 2,770 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 166 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 2017, 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. | 2017 | 6.2 hrs | 1.55 | 1.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/california/kern-county