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2019 Riverside County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Riverside County, CA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 3.2M customer-hours (California average 9.6 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 57 California counties and 1399th 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 Riverside 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 | November 27, 2019 18:15 | December 4, 2019 01:45 | 6d 7h | 25,264 | 187K |
| 2 | October 16, 2019 15:30 | October 17, 2019 01:30 | 10h | 16,611 | 9,044 |
| 3 | March 5, 2019 16:15 | March 8, 2019 06:15 | 2d 14h | 14,212 | 29K |
| 4 | September 2, 2019 05:15 | September 7, 2019 11:00 | 5d 5h | 13,017 | 201K |
| 5 | April 4, 2019 15:15 | April 6, 2019 00:00 | 1d 8h | 12,362 | 18K |
| 6 | May 18, 2019 04:00 | May 20, 2019 07:45 | 2d 3h | 12,244 | 42K |
| 7 | February 23, 2019 16:30 | February 26, 2019 02:30 | 2d 10h | 12,035 | 26K |
| 8 | March 22, 2019 14:15 | March 23, 2019 23:30 | 1d 9h | 11,997 | 41K |
| 9 | March 24, 2019 00:45 | March 24, 2019 22:30 | 21h 45m | 11,832 | 48K |
| 10 | October 17, 2019 15:00 | October 18, 2019 00:00 | 9h | 11,817 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 275 reached 100+ customers, 182 reached 1,000+ customers, 25 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 Riverside 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 |
| Arizona Public Service Co | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.08 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2018 | 59 min | 0.58 | 59 min | 0.58 |
| Anza Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 108.7 hrs | 11.22 | 105.9 hrs | 10.94 |
| City of Riverside - (CA) | 2018 | 90 min | 0.88 | 54 min | 0.82 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Banning - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Corona - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Moreno Valley - (CA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 853,923 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. Riverside County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Riverside 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/riverside-county