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2018 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 793K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 57 California counties and 1869th 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 Kern 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 | January 8, 2018 22:15 | January 9, 2018 22:15 | 1d | 14,286 | 100K |
| 2 | November 20, 2018 16:30 | November 24, 2018 05:00 | 3d 12h | 9,918 | 30K |
| 3 | June 13, 2018 08:30 | June 16, 2018 13:15 | 3d 4h | 7,806 | 77K |
| 4 | July 14, 2018 06:00 | July 17, 2018 06:30 | 3d | 6,777 | 27K |
| 5 | March 11, 2018 07:15 | March 12, 2018 01:00 | 17h 45m | 5,631 | 4,368 |
| 6 | December 15, 2018 16:00 | December 17, 2018 06:45 | 1d 14h | 5,358 | 64K |
| 7 | May 10, 2018 14:30 | May 10, 2018 22:45 | 8h 15m | 5,343 | 8,064 |
| 8 | November 9, 2018 13:45 | November 9, 2018 22:00 | 8h 15m | 5,031 | 1,997 |
| 9 | October 19, 2018 15:15 | October 21, 2018 21:15 | 2d 6h | 4,693 | 10K |
| 10 | November 27, 2018 16:00 | November 30, 2018 10:30 | 2d 18h | 4,590 | 7,841 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 189 reached 100+ customers, 57 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 Kern 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 1.18 | 2.1 hrs | 1.08 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.87 | 71 min | 0.72 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/kern-county