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2021 Fresno County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Fresno County, CA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 57 California counties and 1598th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fresno County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2021 11:45 | October 17, 2021 07:15 | 8d 19h | 14,099 | 258K |
| 2 | March 4, 2021 15:30 | March 5, 2021 03:30 | 12h | 12,097 | 35K |
| 3 | January 18, 2021 16:15 | January 22, 2021 14:00 | 3d 21h | 7,666 | 133K |
| 4 | June 16, 2021 14:45 | June 22, 2021 04:00 | 5d 13h | 7,268 | 104K |
| 5 | October 23, 2021 13:45 | October 28, 2021 11:00 | 4d 21h | 6,885 | 74K |
| 6 | July 8, 2021 21:15 | July 23, 2021 14:00 | 14d 16h | 6,281 | 42K |
| 7 | May 9, 2021 15:45 | May 21, 2021 12:30 | 11d 20h | 6,117 | 56K |
| 8 | September 22, 2021 12:00 | September 24, 2021 12:00 | 2d | 5,750 | 20K |
| 9 | June 22, 2021 04:45 | June 24, 2021 12:30 | 2d 7h | 5,515 | 16K |
| 10 | May 31, 2021 16:00 | June 5, 2021 05:15 | 4d 13h | 5,455 | 41K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 130 reached 100+ customers, 72 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Fresno County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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. | 2021 | 10.4 hrs | 1.84 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | 1.11 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kings River Conservation Dist | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of California's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 458,084 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. Fresno County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fresno County, CA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/california/fresno-county