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2020 Orange County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Orange County, CA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 2.8M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 57 California counties and 2144th 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 Orange 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 | April 23, 2020 05:30 | April 26, 2020 08:45 | 3d 3h | 23,812 | 53K |
| 2 | May 19, 2020 16:00 | May 20, 2020 23:30 | 1d 7h | 20,961 | 9,533 |
| 3 | October 16, 2020 15:00 | October 20, 2020 09:00 | 3d 18h | 17,885 | 32K |
| 4 | January 17, 2020 14:30 | January 18, 2020 01:00 | 10h 30m | 17,298 | 4,892 |
| 5 | June 19, 2020 15:30 | June 21, 2020 04:15 | 1d 12h | 17,130 | 25K |
| 6 | February 3, 2020 01:45 | February 4, 2020 00:15 | 22h 30m | 16,690 | 6,719 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 15:30 | July 18, 2020 20:30 | 5h | 16,134 | 8,081 |
| 8 | May 23, 2020 04:30 | May 23, 2020 23:00 | 18h 30m | 15,976 | 15K |
| 9 | June 15, 2020 15:45 | June 16, 2020 12:45 | 21h | 15,887 | 17K |
| 10 | August 14, 2020 15:00 | August 18, 2020 13:00 | 3d 22h | 14,620 | 48K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 289 reached 100+ customers, 179 reached 1,000+ customers, 17 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 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 |
| San Diego Gas & Electric Co | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 0.80 | 71 min | 0.68 |
| City of Anaheim - (CA) | 2020 | 26 min | 0.39 | 26 min | 0.39 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/orange-county