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2019 Madera County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Madera County, CA went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 927K customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 57 California counties and 388th 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 Madera 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 27, 2019 15:45 | October 29, 2019 08:00 | 1d 16h | 17,954 | 474K |
| 2 | July 23, 2019 15:30 | July 25, 2019 02:00 | 1d 10h | 16,908 | 30K |
| 3 | August 19, 2019 15:30 | August 20, 2019 12:45 | 21h 15m | 15,452 | 16K |
| 4 | October 29, 2019 09:15 | October 29, 2019 10:00 | 45m | 5,479 | 4,109 |
| 5 | October 29, 2019 10:45 | October 31, 2019 05:45 | 1d 19h | 5,479 | 56K |
| 6 | May 19, 2019 04:45 | May 19, 2019 20:45 | 16h | 3,980 | 11K |
| 7 | December 27, 2019 10:00 | December 27, 2019 12:15 | 2h 15m | 3,973 | 1,116 |
| 8 | March 4, 2019 15:15 | March 5, 2019 13:00 | 21h 45m | 3,967 | 17K |
| 9 | April 9, 2019 06:30 | April 11, 2019 05:00 | 1d 22h | 3,354 | 13K |
| 10 | May 10, 2019 02:45 | May 10, 2019 22:15 | 19h 30m | 3,118 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 133 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Madera 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 68,503 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. Madera County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madera 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/madera-county