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2020 Kings County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kings County, CA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 174K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 57 California counties and 1962nd 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 Kings 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 | June 3, 2020 16:15 | June 4, 2020 11:15 | 19h | 8,885 | 9,303 |
| 2 | December 2, 2020 04:45 | December 2, 2020 06:00 | 1h 15m | 8,510 | 7,005 |
| 3 | August 15, 2020 23:30 | August 18, 2020 08:45 | 2d 9h | 3,725 | 32K |
| 4 | June 25, 2020 06:15 | June 26, 2020 01:30 | 19h 15m | 3,562 | 2,167 |
| 5 | March 1, 2020 12:45 | March 2, 2020 03:00 | 14h 15m | 3,023 | 4,053 |
| 6 | April 23, 2020 08:15 | April 23, 2020 11:15 | 3h | 2,362 | 1,190 |
| 7 | July 15, 2020 19:45 | July 16, 2020 02:00 | 6h 15m | 2,349 | 3,735 |
| 8 | January 9, 2020 18:00 | January 9, 2020 18:15 | 15m | 2,345 | 586 |
| 9 | May 28, 2020 01:30 | May 28, 2020 04:00 | 2h 30m | 2,252 | 1,764 |
| 10 | June 5, 2020 00:30 | June 5, 2020 01:45 | 1h 15m | 2,252 | 1,237 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 92 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Kings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2020 | 7.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.3 hrs | 1.04 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | 1.06 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
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 ÷ 62,998 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. Kings County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kings 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/kings-county