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2018 Imperial County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Imperial County, CA went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 2,297 customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 57 California counties and 2712th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Imperial County, 2018
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 7, 2018 04:00 | July 7, 2018 08:15 | 4h 15m | 373 | 1,492 |
| 2 | February 20, 2018 19:15 | February 20, 2018 19:30 | 15m | 138 | 35 |
| 3 | May 23, 2018 17:00 | May 24, 2018 04:15 | 11h 15m | 60 | 645 |
| 4 | May 15, 2018 15:30 | May 15, 2018 21:00 | 5h 30m | 16 | 75 |
| 5 | August 22, 2018 14:30 | August 22, 2018 20:30 | 6h | 6 | 36 |
| 6 | March 30, 2018 18:15 | March 30, 2018 18:45 | 30m | 3 | 2 |
| 7 | December 4, 2018 19:30 | December 4, 2018 22:00 | 2h 30m | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | July 18, 2018 15:00 | July 18, 2018 16:30 | 1h 30m | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | July 18, 2018 18:00 | July 18, 2018 18:45 | 45m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | October 13, 2018 16:30 | October 13, 2018 18:00 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Imperial County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.87 | 71 min | 0.72 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2018 | 59 min | 0.58 | 59 min | 0.58 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of California's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 72,691 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. Imperial County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Imperial County, CA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/california/imperial-county