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2019 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 57 California counties and 1375th 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 Kern 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 | October 29, 2019 12:15 | November 1, 2019 11:30 | 2d 23h | 17,294 | 101K |
| 2 | February 15, 2019 16:15 | February 17, 2019 06:15 | 1d 14h | 11,392 | 71K |
| 3 | December 21, 2019 14:15 | December 24, 2019 23:45 | 3d 9h | 11,036 | 64K |
| 4 | December 25, 2019 22:45 | December 28, 2019 08:30 | 2d 9h | 11,014 | 43K |
| 5 | November 1, 2019 14:45 | November 11, 2019 04:00 | 9d 13h | 9,228 | 75K |
| 6 | October 10, 2019 19:00 | October 13, 2019 11:00 | 2d 16h | 7,476 | 121K |
| 7 | November 19, 2019 16:30 | November 22, 2019 14:15 | 2d 21h | 7,437 | 43K |
| 8 | November 28, 2019 14:30 | December 3, 2019 13:45 | 4d 23h | 7,172 | 15K |
| 9 | July 26, 2019 14:45 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 1d 3h | 7,023 | 17K |
| 10 | July 2, 2019 13:15 | July 7, 2019 06:45 | 4d 17h | 6,828 | 33K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 173 reached 100+ customers, 78 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 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 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/kern-county