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2017 Riverside County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Riverside County, CA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 2.7M customer-hours (California average 2.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 47 California counties and 1292nd 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 Riverside 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 | July 11, 2017 06:30 | July 11, 2017 07:30 | 1h | 15,795 | 9,257 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 13:00 | April 7, 2017 21:15 | 1d 8h | 14,445 | 26K |
| 3 | December 5, 2017 14:45 | December 9, 2017 17:45 | 4d 3h | 12,207 | 244K |
| 4 | September 21, 2017 15:15 | September 22, 2017 02:15 | 11h | 12,020 | 15K |
| 5 | July 8, 2017 03:15 | July 9, 2017 05:30 | 1d 2h | 10,926 | 31K |
| 6 | July 31, 2017 04:30 | August 5, 2017 14:00 | 5d 9h | 8,797 | 101K |
| 7 | January 20, 2017 08:45 | January 26, 2017 03:30 | 5d 18h | 8,778 | 50K |
| 8 | February 11, 2017 01:30 | February 11, 2017 11:00 | 9h 30m | 8,137 | 21K |
| 9 | December 1, 2017 15:30 | December 3, 2017 02:45 | 1d 11h | 8,098 | 33K |
| 10 | August 29, 2017 22:00 | September 2, 2017 13:30 | 3d 15h | 8,025 | 136K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 292 reached 100+ customers, 158 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern California Edison Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 0.91 | 75 min | 0.75 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2017 | 64 min | 0.70 | 49 min | 0.61 |
| Anza Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 29.8 hrs | 3.25 | 29.5 hrs | 3.18 |
| City of Riverside - (CA) | 2017 | 48 min | 0.66 | 43 min | 0.66 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/riverside-county