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2018 Kings County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kings County, CA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 57 California counties and 1995th 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 Kings 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 | October 7, 2018 21:00 | October 8, 2018 00:00 | 3h | 2,968 | 1,486 |
| 2 | September 11, 2018 05:45 | September 11, 2018 08:45 | 3h | 1,975 | 5,432 |
| 3 | November 28, 2018 16:45 | November 29, 2018 01:00 | 8h 15m | 1,960 | 601 |
| 4 | December 17, 2018 17:45 | December 18, 2018 01:30 | 7h 45m | 1,919 | 988 |
| 5 | September 16, 2018 01:00 | September 16, 2018 11:15 | 10h 15m | 1,872 | 1,920 |
| 6 | July 29, 2018 12:45 | July 29, 2018 22:45 | 10h | 1,852 | 2,557 |
| 7 | December 10, 2018 16:45 | December 11, 2018 01:15 | 8h 30m | 1,829 | 597 |
| 8 | October 27, 2018 16:15 | October 28, 2018 00:30 | 8h 15m | 1,730 | 449 |
| 9 | November 6, 2018 19:00 | November 6, 2018 19:15 | 15m | 1,728 | 432 |
| 10 | November 6, 2018 20:00 | November 6, 2018 20:15 | 15m | 1,728 | 432 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 75 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Kings 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 ÷ 62,998 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. Kings County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kings 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/kings-county