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2021 Kings County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kings County, CA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 57 California counties and 1911th 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 Kings 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 18, 2021 23:00 | September 19, 2021 01:00 | 2h | 22,092 | 5,525 |
| 2 | October 11, 2021 14:45 | October 14, 2021 14:15 | 2d 23h | 3,266 | 19K |
| 3 | October 8, 2021 15:45 | October 9, 2021 23:30 | 1d 7h | 3,065 | 13K |
| 4 | April 10, 2021 19:15 | April 11, 2021 03:30 | 8h 15m | 2,854 | 1,811 |
| 5 | September 15, 2021 14:30 | September 15, 2021 19:15 | 4h 45m | 2,531 | 3,629 |
| 6 | June 9, 2021 16:45 | June 10, 2021 07:00 | 14h 15m | 2,351 | 2,026 |
| 7 | January 2, 2021 01:15 | January 2, 2021 04:15 | 3h | 2,256 | 4,316 |
| 8 | October 24, 2021 23:30 | October 27, 2021 11:15 | 2d 11h | 1,989 | 11K |
| 9 | March 25, 2021 02:00 | March 25, 2021 04:15 | 2h 15m | 1,985 | 664 |
| 10 | April 13, 2021 22:30 | April 14, 2021 02:30 | 4h | 1,985 | 571 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 94 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Kings 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 ÷ 62,998 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. Kings County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kings 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/kings-county