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2021 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 57 California counties and 1569th 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 Kern 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 | September 6, 2021 17:15 | September 12, 2021 12:45 | 5d 19h | 10,006 | 64K |
| 2 | October 25, 2021 13:45 | October 28, 2021 06:15 | 2d 16h | 9,864 | 78K |
| 3 | July 8, 2021 15:30 | July 18, 2021 05:30 | 9d 14h | 8,589 | 129K |
| 4 | August 27, 2021 13:30 | September 1, 2021 12:30 | 4d 23h | 7,071 | 34K |
| 5 | December 13, 2021 14:15 | December 16, 2021 11:30 | 2d 21h | 6,759 | 61K |
| 6 | February 7, 2021 23:00 | February 9, 2021 13:15 | 1d 14h | 6,412 | 23K |
| 7 | January 10, 2021 14:00 | January 11, 2021 13:15 | 23h 15m | 6,387 | 26K |
| 8 | April 21, 2021 08:15 | April 22, 2021 01:00 | 16h 45m | 5,486 | 11K |
| 9 | August 23, 2021 14:00 | August 26, 2021 10:00 | 2d 20h | 5,435 | 40K |
| 10 | February 3, 2021 15:15 | February 6, 2021 06:30 | 2d 15h | 5,409 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 190 reached 100+ customers, 86 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 Kern 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 |
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 ÷ 395,015 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. Kern County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kern 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/kern-county