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2022 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 57 California counties and 1184th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kern County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 5, 2022 05:00 | November 6, 2022 03:15 | 22h 15m | 50,079 | 334K |
| 2 | June 10, 2022 15:15 | June 13, 2022 01:15 | 2d 10h | 29,360 | 93K |
| 3 | June 21, 2022 15:15 | June 26, 2022 11:45 | 4d 20h | 18,862 | 454K |
| 4 | August 2, 2022 15:15 | August 7, 2022 05:30 | 4d 14h | 16,763 | 91K |
| 5 | April 10, 2022 21:45 | April 13, 2022 09:15 | 2d 11h | 11,537 | 81K |
| 6 | November 16, 2022 16:00 | November 20, 2022 05:15 | 3d 13h | 9,136 | 39K |
| 7 | November 1, 2022 15:45 | November 4, 2022 03:15 | 2d 11h | 7,927 | 30K |
| 8 | January 21, 2022 12:00 | January 23, 2022 05:45 | 1d 17h | 7,238 | 18K |
| 9 | July 29, 2022 14:30 | August 1, 2022 11:15 | 2d 20h | 6,138 | 40K |
| 10 | December 27, 2022 15:45 | December 30, 2022 12:45 | 2d 21h | 5,904 | 29K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 201 reached 100+ customers, 83 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2022, 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. | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.78 | 4.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 | 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/california/kern-county