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2019 Imperial County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Imperial County, CA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 267K customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 57 California counties and 1415th 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 Imperial 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 | December 11, 2019 19:30 | December 20, 2019 02:15 | 8d 6h | 986 | 132K |
| 2 | December 20, 2019 04:00 | December 26, 2019 21:45 | 6d 17h | 797 | 129K |
| 3 | September 24, 2019 00:30 | September 24, 2019 03:45 | 3h 15m | 758 | 1,836 |
| 4 | September 25, 2019 23:15 | September 26, 2019 00:45 | 1h 30m | 756 | 1,134 |
| 5 | September 5, 2019 03:45 | September 5, 2019 05:00 | 1h 15m | 379 | 474 |
| 6 | September 5, 2019 07:30 | September 5, 2019 08:30 | 1h | 379 | 284 |
| 7 | November 20, 2019 07:15 | November 20, 2019 10:30 | 3h 15m | 377 | 1,225 |
| 8 | September 24, 2019 17:30 | September 25, 2019 01:30 | 8h | 154 | 1,232 |
| 9 | December 5, 2019 17:00 | December 6, 2019 02:30 | 9h 30m | 25 | 145 |
| 10 | July 19, 2019 05:15 | July 19, 2019 07:30 | 2h 15m | 19 | 43 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 93% of California's customers in 2019; 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, 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/imperial-county