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2021 Tulare County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Tulare County, CA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 905K customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 57 California counties and 1360th 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 Tulare 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 21, 2021 05:00 | November 25, 2021 09:45 | 35d 4h | 75,292 | 118K |
| 2 | June 29, 2021 05:30 | June 29, 2021 08:30 | 3h | 16,806 | 8,420 |
| 3 | June 17, 2021 14:30 | June 21, 2021 13:30 | 3d 23h | 9,832 | 68K |
| 4 | May 12, 2021 15:30 | May 14, 2021 00:15 | 1d 8h | 9,423 | 8,754 |
| 5 | August 23, 2021 15:00 | August 25, 2021 02:00 | 1d 11h | 6,919 | 3,024 |
| 6 | March 15, 2021 06:15 | March 17, 2021 03:00 | 1d 20h | 4,655 | 13K |
| 7 | February 17, 2021 16:45 | February 18, 2021 13:15 | 20h 30m | 3,557 | 4,684 |
| 8 | August 14, 2021 03:45 | August 14, 2021 13:45 | 10h | 3,488 | 9,948 |
| 9 | January 28, 2021 16:45 | January 31, 2021 01:15 | 2d 8h | 3,115 | 14K |
| 10 | September 10, 2021 07:30 | September 11, 2021 09:15 | 1d 1h | 3,002 | 2,107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 201 reached 100+ customers, 70 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 Tulare 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 ÷ 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, 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/tulare-county