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2019 Fresno County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Fresno County, CA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 57 California counties and 1798th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fresno County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 5, 2019 14:15 | June 10, 2019 10:30 | 4d 20h | 22,318 | 58K |
| 2 | December 8, 2019 07:45 | December 9, 2019 13:15 | 1d 5h | 18,139 | 8,631 |
| 3 | November 9, 2019 14:15 | November 11, 2019 08:15 | 1d 18h | 17,639 | 7,256 |
| 4 | May 5, 2019 12:15 | May 17, 2019 11:30 | 11d 23h | 11,995 | 78K |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 05:15 | December 2, 2019 10:15 | 5d 5h | 11,399 | 70K |
| 6 | January 21, 2019 05:15 | January 22, 2019 15:00 | 1d 9h | 6,795 | 37K |
| 7 | October 10, 2019 19:00 | October 12, 2019 23:30 | 2d 4h | 5,744 | 8,476 |
| 8 | October 27, 2019 15:30 | October 29, 2019 08:00 | 1d 16h | 5,348 | 118K |
| 9 | September 12, 2019 14:15 | September 15, 2019 04:30 | 2d 14h | 5,235 | 25K |
| 10 | April 14, 2019 05:30 | April 14, 2019 10:00 | 4h 30m | 4,978 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 184 reached 100+ customers, 78 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 Fresno County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kings River Conservation Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 93% of California's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 458,084 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. Fresno County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fresno County, CA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/california/fresno-county