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2019 Orange County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Orange County, CA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 57 California counties and 1758th 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 Orange 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 4, 2019 22:15 | October 5, 2019 11:15 | 13h | 83,382 | 345K |
| 2 | December 2, 2019 14:45 | December 3, 2019 14:00 | 23h 15m | 77,647 | 235K |
| 3 | June 3, 2019 15:00 | June 5, 2019 12:45 | 1d 21h | 29,307 | 29K |
| 4 | July 30, 2019 03:45 | August 3, 2019 22:15 | 4d 18h | 28,061 | 278K |
| 5 | July 1, 2019 05:15 | July 2, 2019 12:30 | 1d 7h | 22,414 | 21K |
| 6 | June 6, 2019 15:45 | June 8, 2019 09:00 | 1d 17h | 17,186 | 30K |
| 7 | April 4, 2019 05:30 | April 5, 2019 06:45 | 1d 1h | 16,676 | 21K |
| 8 | October 10, 2019 05:45 | October 15, 2019 13:00 | 5d 7h | 15,157 | 63K |
| 9 | May 14, 2019 15:00 | May 15, 2019 03:15 | 12h 15m | 14,832 | 9,768 |
| 10 | July 15, 2019 15:15 | July 18, 2019 16:45 | 3d 1h | 13,399 | 83K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 222 reached 100+ customers, 140 reached 1,000+ customers, 16 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 Orange 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 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.66 | 78 min | 0.63 |
| City of Anaheim - (CA) | 2018 | 27 min | 0.50 | 27 min | 0.50 |
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 ÷ 1,255,530 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county