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2017 Tulare County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Tulare County, CA went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (California average 2.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 47 California counties and 876th 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 Tulare 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 | October 12, 2017 15:15 | October 13, 2017 00:45 | 9h 30m | 16,115 | 12K |
| 2 | July 24, 2017 20:00 | July 25, 2017 03:30 | 7h 30m | 6,578 | 18K |
| 3 | August 29, 2017 07:15 | September 10, 2017 04:00 | 11d 20h | 5,195 | 496K |
| 4 | July 17, 2017 15:15 | July 18, 2017 23:15 | 1d 8h | 3,497 | 15K |
| 5 | October 27, 2017 01:00 | October 27, 2017 03:00 | 2h | 3,384 | 2,581 |
| 6 | August 8, 2017 05:45 | August 9, 2017 22:00 | 1d 16h | 2,556 | 34K |
| 7 | May 12, 2017 15:30 | May 12, 2017 23:45 | 8h 15m | 2,512 | 1,371 |
| 8 | March 7, 2017 16:15 | March 8, 2017 05:00 | 12h 45m | 2,373 | 1,575 |
| 9 | May 2, 2017 16:00 | May 3, 2017 00:00 | 8h | 2,371 | 1,570 |
| 10 | May 12, 2017 14:15 | May 12, 2017 14:30 | 15m | 2,369 | 592 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 226 reached 100+ customers, 55 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/tulare-county