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2020 Tulare County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Tulare County, CA went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 57 California counties and 1119th 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 Tulare 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 7, 2020 15:30 | January 14, 2020 01:45 | 6d 10h | 24,731 | 15K |
| 2 | April 30, 2020 14:15 | April 30, 2020 14:45 | 30m | 11,001 | 5,501 |
| 3 | June 22, 2020 15:30 | June 23, 2020 04:00 | 12h 30m | 10,661 | 2,710 |
| 4 | August 31, 2020 02:15 | August 31, 2020 13:30 | 11h 15m | 9,975 | 7,911 |
| 5 | October 20, 2020 13:45 | November 7, 2020 08:30 | 17d 18h | 9,879 | 140K |
| 6 | February 25, 2020 15:45 | February 26, 2020 00:45 | 9h | 6,095 | 2,440 |
| 7 | February 24, 2020 04:15 | February 24, 2020 12:15 | 8h | 4,159 | 2,589 |
| 8 | March 2, 2020 15:30 | March 3, 2020 23:15 | 1d 7h | 3,993 | 10K |
| 9 | April 15, 2020 14:45 | April 16, 2020 05:00 | 14h 15m | 3,694 | 3,914 |
| 10 | November 7, 2020 11:00 | November 20, 2020 09:15 | 12d 22h | 3,561 | 80K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 179 reached 100+ customers, 63 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Tulare 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 ÷ 186,939 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. Tulare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Tulare 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/tulare-county