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2020 Imperial County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Imperial County, CA went without power for an average of 12.4 hours, a total of 902K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 57 California counties and 645th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Imperial County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 8, 2020 21:30 | May 27, 2020 02:00 | 18d 4h | 2,513 | 700K |
| 2 | April 18, 2020 19:15 | April 18, 2020 19:45 | 30m | 1,702 | 851 |
| 3 | August 4, 2020 18:00 | August 4, 2020 18:45 | 45m | 1,700 | 1,243 |
| 4 | July 14, 2020 00:45 | July 14, 2020 19:30 | 18h 45m | 1,579 | 30K |
| 5 | February 10, 2020 23:15 | February 13, 2020 12:00 | 2d 12h | 1,288 | 3,453 |
| 6 | October 30, 2020 01:00 | October 30, 2020 02:30 | 1h 30m | 870 | 1,305 |
| 7 | March 11, 2020 21:15 | March 12, 2020 21:00 | 23h 45m | 625 | 985 |
| 8 | April 22, 2020 04:30 | April 22, 2020 05:30 | 1h | 608 | 608 |
| 9 | June 25, 2020 19:00 | July 4, 2020 08:45 | 8d 13h | 581 | 21K |
| 10 | October 22, 2020 23:15 | October 26, 2020 17:00 | 3d 17h | 439 | 5,121 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 21 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Imperial County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | 1.06 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
| Imperial Irrigation District | 2020 | 72 min | 0.61 | 58 min | 0.58 |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 72,691 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. Imperial County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Imperial County, CA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/california/imperial-county