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2020 Merced County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Merced County, CA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 281K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 57 California counties and 1393rd 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 Merced 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 | January 10, 2020 15:30 | January 10, 2020 23:15 | 7h 45m | 14,687 | 39K |
| 2 | November 7, 2020 05:30 | November 8, 2020 11:00 | 1d 5h | 5,481 | 12K |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 13:45 | July 12, 2020 09:00 | 19h 15m | 4,689 | 19K |
| 4 | February 9, 2020 16:30 | February 10, 2020 08:45 | 16h 15m | 4,045 | 26K |
| 5 | January 3, 2020 11:15 | January 4, 2020 03:00 | 15h 45m | 3,754 | 2,897 |
| 6 | September 19, 2020 02:15 | September 19, 2020 10:45 | 8h 30m | 3,062 | 11K |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 19:15 | July 19, 2020 06:30 | 11h 15m | 2,808 | 4,431 |
| 8 | August 18, 2020 02:30 | August 19, 2020 04:15 | 1d 1h | 2,716 | 9,950 |
| 9 | August 14, 2020 23:30 | August 16, 2020 06:30 | 1d 7h | 2,346 | 2,993 |
| 10 | March 19, 2020 02:15 | March 19, 2020 12:15 | 10h | 2,220 | 3,909 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 126 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Turlock Irrigation District | 2020 | 75 min | 0.66 | 56 min | 0.57 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; 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, 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/merced-county