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2019 Merced County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Merced County, CA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 57 California counties and 1326th 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 Merced 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 | March 6, 2019 15:00 | March 7, 2019 09:45 | 18h 45m | 5,072 | 2,767 |
| 2 | January 6, 2019 19:15 | January 9, 2019 04:30 | 2d 9h | 4,891 | 19K |
| 3 | December 5, 2019 17:30 | December 6, 2019 02:00 | 8h 30m | 4,697 | 9,807 |
| 4 | May 19, 2019 17:45 | May 20, 2019 23:30 | 1d 5h | 4,067 | 5,912 |
| 5 | May 6, 2019 17:00 | May 7, 2019 12:30 | 19h 30m | 4,033 | 14K |
| 6 | March 19, 2019 06:30 | March 19, 2019 13:00 | 6h 30m | 3,039 | 2,533 |
| 7 | March 2, 2019 09:00 | March 2, 2019 10:15 | 1h 15m | 2,767 | 1,370 |
| 8 | October 10, 2019 20:15 | October 11, 2019 11:00 | 14h 45m | 2,698 | 2,639 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 02:30 | November 28, 2019 06:30 | 1d 4h | 2,606 | 3,870 |
| 10 | March 5, 2019 16:00 | March 6, 2019 11:15 | 19h 15m | 2,566 | 4,717 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 118 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Merced 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Turlock Irrigation District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Merced Irrigation District | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 56,077 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. Merced County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Merced 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/merced-county